The blood feud between Duke Leto of Caladon and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen reaches its climax, as the emperor Shaddam - leader of House Corrino - is finally forced to curb the powerful Harkonnens or risk losing his own throne. Menawhile, Duke Leto's beautiful concubie, the Bene Gesserit temptress Jessica,- has conceived the boy who become Paul Atreides (the hero of Dune), defying the express orders of her superiors. The book culminates in a war - on Dune, on the oppressed planet Ix, in space - that will alter the balance of ...
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The blood feud between Duke Leto of Caladon and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen reaches its climax, as the emperor Shaddam - leader of House Corrino - is finally forced to curb the powerful Harkonnens or risk losing his own throne. Menawhile, Duke Leto's beautiful concubie, the Bene Gesserit temptress Jessica,- has conceived the boy who become Paul Atreides (the hero of Dune), defying the express orders of her superiors. The book culminates in a war - on Dune, on the oppressed planet Ix, in space - that will alter the balance of power for a generation.
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New. 2002. Paperback. The third and final volume of Prelude to Dune brings this gripping series to its close, only a few years before the beginning of Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel Dune. Num Pages: 608 pages, maps-o/s from hb. BIC Classification: 1DDF; FL; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 114 x 42. Weight in Grams: 378......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
House Corrino is a great end to this trilogy. As in the originals Brian and Kevin have written a story that has plans within plans, stories within stories that would make Frank proud. It concludes the ongoing stories masterfully and helps explain some of the tensions and relations we see in Franks stories.