Description: First American Printing, with complete number line. Simultaenously released in the UK as HC and TP with differing cover art, no maps [ISFDM 11564]. Tight, flat, square, sharp and crisp book in lightly wrinkled DJ under mylar. Modest foxing to the edges. Ex-library, properly de-accessioned, with expected marks, labels, paste downs, stamps and protections. Fearful of losing his precarious hold on the Golden Lion Throne, Shaddam IV, Emperor of a Million Worlds, has devised a radical scheme to develop an alternative to melange, the addictive spice that binds the Imperium together and that can be found only on the desert world of Dune. In subterranean labs on the machine planet Ix, cruel Tleilaxu overlords use slaves and prisoners as part of a horrific plan to manufacture a synthetic form of melange known as amal. If amal can supplant the spice from Dune, it will give Shaddam what he seeks: absolute power. But Duke Leto Atreides, grief-stricken yet unbowed by the tragic death of his son Victor, determined to restore the honor and prestige of his House, has his own plans for Ix. He will free the Ixians from their oppressive conquerors and restore his friend Prince Rhombur, injured scion of the disgraced House Vernius, to his rightful place as Ixian ruler. It is a bold and risky venture, for House Atreides has limited military resources and many ruthless enemies, including the sadistic Baron Harkonnen, despotic master of Dune. Meanwhile, Duke Leto's consort, the beautiful Lady Jessica, obeying the orders of her superiors in the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, has conceived a child that the Sisterhood intends to be the penultimate step in the creation of an all-powerful being. Yet what the Sisterhood doesn't know is that the child Jessica is carrying is not the girl they are expecting, but a boy. Jessica's act of disobedience is an act of love -- her attempt to provide her Duke with a male heir to House Atreides -- but an act that, when discovered, could kill both mother and baby. Like the Bene Gesserit, Shaddam Corrino is also concerned with making a plan for the future -- securing his legacy. Blinded by his need for power, the Emperor will launch a plot against Dune, the only natural source of true spice. If he succeeds, his madness will result in a cataclysmic tragedy not even he foresees: the end of space travel, the Imperium, and civilization itself. With Duke Leto and other renegades and revolutionaries fighting to stem the tide of darkness that threatens to engulf their universe, the stage is set for a showdown unlike any seen before.
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Narrative Type: Fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Type: Novel
Features: Dust Jacket, Ex-Library
Original Language: English
Personalized: No
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Signed: No
Edition: First Edition
Era: 2000s
Book Title: Dune : House Corrino
Number of Pages: 512 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2001
Item Height: 1.3 in
Topic: Science Fiction / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 27 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson, Herbert Franke
Item Width: 6.4 in
Book Series: Dune Ser.
Format: Hardcover
