Heretics of Dune Mass market paperbound - 1987

Name: Heretics of Dune - Dune vol. 5
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Author: Frank Herbert
ISBN: 9780441328000

by Frank Herbert

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Summary

With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. In this, the fifth and most spectacular Dune book of all, the planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love...

From the publisher

Book Five in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying. Now the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as these factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandriders--fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor....

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Details

Title Heretics of Dune
Author Frank Herbert
Binding Mass Market Paperbound
Edition Later Edition
Pages 471
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Ace Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date August 15, 1987
ISBN 9780441328000 / 0441328008
Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
Dimensions 6.88 x 4.19 x 1.04 in (17.48 x 10.64 x 2.64 cm)
Ages 18 to UP years
Grade levels 13 - UP
Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Dune (Imaginary place)
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Frank Herbert is the bestselling author of the Dune saga. He was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs--including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter and editor of several West Coast newspapers--before becoming a full-time writer. In 1952, Herbert began publishing science fiction with "Looking for Something?" in Startling Stories. But his emergence as a writer of major stature did not occur until 1965, with the publication of Dune. Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune followed, completing the saga that the Chicago Tribune would call "one of the monuments of modern science fiction." Herbert is also the author of some twenty other books, including The White Plague, The Dosadi Experiment, and Destination: Void. He died in 1986.