Children of Dune The Third Dune Novel
The epic that began with the Hugo and Nebula Award winning classic Dune continues ...
The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the, galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet’s economy. Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides’s twin children, and his heirs, can see possible solutions but fanatics begin to, challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens ... ,
`The work of a speculative intellect with few rivals in modern SF’ The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2000)
The Dosadi Experiment In the far future, humans and aliens have joined together in a galaxy-wide federation of intelligent species: The Consentiency. But its existence is now threatened by the discovery of a secret, illegal and deadly experiment on the planet Dosadi.
There the froglike Gowachin have created a brutal society: 850 million beings, human and Gowachin, are confined in an area of 40 square kilometres. But the experiment in overcrowding is getting out of control: the beings that have bred on Dosadi are so tough and resourceful that they are capable of breaking out of their monstrous prison and overrunning the galaxy. 'Totally credible and told with an ease which belies an extraordinary control over the genre' The Times
'Those who fell in love with Dune will love this one' Financial Times
'J.R.R.Tolkien and C.S.Lewis are not in Mr Herbert's inventive league' New York Times
Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2000)
The Jesus Incident A determined group of colonists are attempting to establish a bridgehead on the planet Pandora, despite the savagery of the native lifeforms, as deadly as they are inhospitable.
But they have more to deal with than just murderous aliens: their ship's computer has been given artificial consciousness and has decided that it is a God. Now it is insisting - with all the not inconsiderable force of its impressive array of armaments to back it up - that the colonists find
appropriate ways to worship It ... 'A speculative intellect with few rivals in modern SF' Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Children of Dune
Children of Dune