The fighters of Ginaz, led by Jool Noret, forge themselves into an elite warrior class, a weapon against the machine-dominated worlds. But their numbers dwindle and time begins to run out. The fearsome cymeks, led by Agamemnon, hatch new plots to regain their lost power from Omnius. The human worlds grow weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat. But the forces led by Serena Butler and Irbis Ginjo have made only slight gains.

The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years. More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in The Butlerian Jihad.

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Against the brute efficiency of their adversaries, these leaders and the human race have only imagination, compassion, and the capacity for love. And Tio Holtzman is the scientist struggling to devise a weapon that will help the human cause. Xavier’s fiancée, Serena Butler, is an activist who will become the unwilling leader of millions. Yet amid shortsighted squabbling between nobles, new leaders have begun to emerge.Īmong them are Xavier Harkonnen, military leader of the Planet of Salusa Secundus. Ten thousand years before the events of Dune, humans have managed to battle the remorseless Machines to a standstill.

And here is the backward, nearly forgotten planet of Arrakis, where traders have discovered the remarkable properties of the spice melange… Here 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. Herein are the foundations of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the Suk Doctors, the Order of Mentats, and the Navigators of the Spacing Guild. And we experience the Battle of Corrin that created a galactic empire that lasted until the reign of Emperor Shaddam IV. We learn the circumstances of the betrayal that made mortal enemies of House Atreides and House Harkonnen. Anderson bring to life the story of that war, a tale previously seen only in tantalizing hints and clues.įinally, we see how Serena Butler’s passionate grief ignites the war that will liberate humans from their machine masters. Throughout the Dune novels, Frank Herbert frequently referred to the long-ago war in which humans wrested their freedom from “thinking machines.” Now, in Dune: Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert and Kevin J.

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