Dune: The Butlerian Jihad: Book One of the Legends of Dune Trilogy [Paperback]

The war against the thinking machines

The betrayal that turned House Atreides and House Harkonnen into mortal enemies

The discovery of spicethe most valuable substance in the known universe

The birth of the Sisterhood, Suk Doctors, Mentats, and Spacing Guild

The origins of the Fremenformer slaves who find a new home on the desert planet

Ten thousand years before Frank Herberts masterpieceDune, humanity is oppressed by powerful machine rulersthe computer overmind Omnius, the maliciously curious robot Erasmus, and their monstrous half-machine collaborators, the cymeks.

But embattled worlds, led by brave Xavier Harkonnen and his firebrand fianc?e Serena Butler, fight for the freedom of the human race. They must find new technologies, and the strength of the human spirit, to fight the terrible thinking machines.

Vorian Atreides is born among the machine worlds and trained to be loyal to his cymek father, but he finds all his preconceptions challenged when Serena Butler becomes a prisoner of Erasmus and a victim of his insidious experiments. After a heart-wrenching tragedy, Serenas passionate grief ignites the religious war that will sweep across the Galaxy and liberate humans from their machine mastersno matter the cost. Will Vorian discover that he belongs among humanity, or remain a pawn of the thinking machines?

Here, too, is the amazing tale of the Zensunni Wanderers, who escape bondage to flee to the desert world where they will declare themselves the Free Men of Dune. Experience how they learn to summon and ride the majestic sandworms.

Read the origins of Frank HerbertsDune.

BRIAN HERBERT, the son of Frank Herbert, wrote the definitive biography of him,Dreamer of Dune, which was a Hugo Award finalist. Herbert is also president of the company managing the legacy of Frank Herbert, and is an executive producer of the motlÖ