History of Dune - Servant Jihad
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History of Dune - Servant Jihad
The Atreides and the Harkonnens were allies in ancient times. That's when the history of Dune began...
The ossified Old Empire was once overthrown by a mere twenty determined conspirators protected by robotic helpers. However, the rule of the Titans, as the rebels called themselves, did not last long. Although they had shed their mortal shells and become kymeks - eternal minds controlling mechanical bodies - they could not resist the growing power of thinking machines. The computer omniscience that came to be called Omnius has conquered most of the known universe and made the kymeks its most dangerous warriors. This has been the case for a thousand years, and yet a handful of human planets - the League of the Sublime - continue to defy the overwhelming odds of the robot-controlled Synchronized Worlds. Two extraordinary young men also make a significant contribution to the fierce war: Xavier Harkonnen and Vorian Atreides, whose different fates are linked by their love for the same woman. To the woman whose courage sparked the human slave revolt against Omnius, a rebellion called the Servant Jihad...
The story of the desert planet Arrakis did not end with the author's untimely death. The relentless interest of readers prompted his son Brian to team up with Kevin J. Anderson and brought his father's fascinating world to life again. The History of Dune trilogy, which opens with the novel The Servant Jihad, is set roughly 10,000 years before the birth of Paul Atreides.
They wrote about the book:
The authors have followed up the late writer's novels and notes with a stunning work full of interesting references and information, much of which appears here for the first time.
- bookreporter.com
Not knowing that History of Dune wasn't written by Frank Herbert himself, I wouldn't know.
- databazeknih.cz
Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Anderson(born 1962), a native of Racine, Wisconsin, broke into writing as a child, though his debut novel, Resurrection, Inc. he didn't get published until he was 26. For twelve years, he worked as a technical editor at a research facility originally founded by the University of California to explore the use of new technologies to enhance the security of the United States. There he also met his later wife Rebecca Moesta. As an established author, he was offered a contract by Lucasfilm to write about the world of Star Wars - the result was, among other things. the successful Jedi Academy trilogy and the 14-part Young Jedi Knights saga he created with his wife. He is also the author of three novels inspired by the poetics of the X-Files series and a number of works written in tandem with Doug Beason. His collaboration with Brian Herbert, the son of writer Frank Herbert, who decided to revive the fictional world of Dune after his father's death, was very fruitful. Together they are signed, among others, by. under the series Overture to Dune, History of Dune, Heroes of Dune, Schools of Dune and the Caladan Trilogy. Of Anderson's own extensive output, the seven-volume epic fantasy The Saga of the Seven Suns should be mentioned.
Brian (Patrick) Herbert
Brian (Patrick) Herbert(* 1947)son of the American classic of the sci-fi genre Frank Herbert, author of the cult classic Dune, with whom he also wrote the novel Man of Two Worlds (1986) and to whom he dedicated his biography Dreamer of Dune, which was nominated for a Hugo Award. Although he has written a number of his own novels (e.g. Sidneyʼs Comet, The Race of God, and the Timeweb trilogy), his stories set in his fatherʼs literary universe were the most acclaimed. In collaboration with writer Kevin J. Anderson created, among others. the book series Prelude to Dune (Atreides, Harkonnen, Corrin), History of Dune (Servant Jihad, Machine Crusade, Battle of Corrin), Heroes of Dune (Paul of Dune, The Dune Winds, Princess Dune), Schools of Dune (Sisterhood of Dune, Mentati Dune, Navigators of Dune) and the Caladan Trilogy (The Duke of Caladan, Lady of Caladan, Heir to Caladan). Together they are also the signatories of the Hellhole trilogy, which depicts the dangerous adventures of the colonizers of the planet Hallholme.
