Frank Herbert
1) Dune
2) Dune messiah
A library planet: the greatest treasure, the deadliest weapon
Earth has become a library planet over the last several thousand years, a bastion of both useful and useless knowledge—esoterica of all types: history, science, politics—gathered by teams of "pack rats" who scour the galaxy for any scrap of information. Knowledge is power, knowledge is wealth, and knowledge can be a weapon. As powerful dictators come and go
...From the second-floor window of a building across the street, a visiting American watches, helpless, as his beloved wife and children are sacrificed in the heat and fire of someone else's cause.
From this shocking beginning, the author of the phenomenal Dune series has created a masterpiece.
The...
10) Mesías de Dune
11) Dune
The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hibernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship's three organic mental cores—disembodied human brains that control the vessel's functions—go insane. The emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: build an artificial consciousness in the Earthling's primary computer that can guide them to their destination—and
...From a New York Times bestseller, a sci-fi “novel of great charm and freshness, with improbable situations, weird complications, vital characters . . . ” (Kirkus Reviews).
What if the entire universe happened to be the creation of alien minds? Dreens are extraordinary storytellers—and they can actually make the worlds they imagine come to life—and this is the origin
16) Whipping Star
La mayor epopeya de todos los tiempos, en formato audiolibro con la traducción corregida en 2019.
Dune será siempre considerada el gran triunfo de la imaginación que convirtió a Frank Herbert en uno de los grandes visionarios de la literatura universal. Hoy este gran clásico vuelve a estar de actualidad por la serie de películas dirigidas por Denis Villeneuve, el director de Arrival y Blade Runner 2049.
...This collection of short fiction features “newfound treasures” from the New York Times–bestselling author of Dune (Midwest Book Review).
Even the author of Dune—the best-selling science fiction novel of all time—had trouble getting published. At first, Frank Herbert wanted to be a writer, and though today his name is practically synonymous with world-building and