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Le livre culte qui a inspiré le film de Denis Villeneuve. Il n'y a pas, dans tout l'Empire, de planète plus inhospitalière que Dune. Partout des sables à perte de vue. Une seule richesse : l'épice de longue vie, née du désert, et que tout l'univers convoite. Quand Leto Atréides reçoit Dune en fief, il flaire le piège. Il aura besoin des guerriers Fremen qui, réfugiés au fond du désert, se sont adaptés à une vie très dure en préservant leur liberté, leurs coutumes et leur foi.

Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world—and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. Chapterhouse Dune is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death: A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever.

More than 3,000 years have passed since the first events recorded in Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species.

On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, 10 times 10 centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying, and the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilax struggle to direct the future of Dune. The children of Dune's children awaken as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love.

Leto II Atréides, l'Empereur-Dieu de Dune, est désormais un ver de sable à face humaine. À peu près invulnérable et immortel, il a entrevu dans l'avenir l'extinction de l'espèce humaine. Pour la conjurer, il fait respecter son ordre, le Sentier d'Or. L'empire a connu trente-cinq siècles de paix. La Guilde et le Bene Gesserit ont les mains liées : c'est Leto qui contrôle sur Dune les dernières réserves de l'indispensable épice. Les Ixiens lui envoient une femme parfaite, issue d'une éprouvette et chargée à son insu de le séduire et de le détruire.

Dune est détruite, vitrifiée, atomisée. Sur tout l'Empire déferlent les hordes furieuses des Honorées Matriarches, massacrant tout sur leur passage. Le Bene Gesserit reste la seule force organisée. Mais la solution n'est peut-être pas dans le pouvoir des armes. Darwi Odrade, la Mère Supérieure, propose de négocier. La Très Honorée Matriarche accepte : elle s'attend à une capitulation sans conditions. Mais Darwi a un plan. Elle sait bien que l'entreprise est des plus risquées.

La saga culte de Frank Herbert enfin en audio ! Sur "Dune", la planète des sables, les prophéties s'accomplissent : le désert devient jardin. Mais les vers géants se font rares et l'Épice de prescience vient à manquer. Tout ce qui reste de l'épopée de Muad'Did, c'est un empire conquis, des guerriers déchus, des prêtres tentés par la théocratie.

The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to...

On the edge of a war-weary and devastated galaxy, charismatic Lewis Orne has landed on Hamal. His assignment: To detect any signs of latent aggression in this planet's population. To his astonishment, he finds that his own latent extrasensory powers have suddenly blossomed, and he is invited to join the company of "gods" on this planet - and the people here place certain expectations on their gods.

Leto II, le Tyran, l'Empereur-Dieu, est mort depuis des milliers d'années, mais son souvenir est dans toutes les mémoires. Sa disparition a entraîné la Grande Famine et la Dispersion de l'humanité à travers les univers. Pourtant ces désordres ont assuré la survie de l'humanité conformément aux plans du Tyran ; et ses Prêtres en tirent argument pour justifier leurs ambitions. Mais la Révérende Mère Taraza sait bien que le pouvoir vient de l'Épice, source de la prescience.

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.

The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hibernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship's three organic mental cores—disembodied human brains that control the vessel's functions—go insane. The emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: build an artificial consciousness in the Earthling's primary computer that can guide them to their destination—and hope it doesn't destroy the human race.

Paul Atréides a triomphé de ses ennemis. En douze ans de guerre sainte, ses Fremen ont conquis l'univers. Il est devenu l'empereur Muad'Dib. Presque un dieu, puisqu'il voit l'avenir. Ses ennemis, il les connaît. Il sait quand et comment ils frapperont. Ils vont essayer de lui reprendre l'épice qui donne la prescience et peut-être de percer le secret de son pouvoir. Il peut déjouer leurs plans, mais voit plus loin encore. Il sait que tous les futurs possibles mènent au désastre et est hanté par la vision de sa propre mort.

Immortal aliens have observed Earth forcenturies, making full sensory movies of wars, natural disasters, and horrifichuman activities - all to relieve their endless boredom. When they finally becomejaded by ordinary, run-of-the-mill tragedies, they find ways to create theirown disasters, just to amuse themselves.

The last survivors of humanity have just been deposited on Pandora, a horrific, poisonous planet rife with deadly nerve-runners, hooded dashers, airborne jellyfish, and intelligent kelp. The determined colonists attempt to establish a bridgehead on the deadly, inhospitable planet, but more trouble arises. Their sentient ship - backed up by an impressive array of armaments - has decided it is God and is insisting the colonists find appropriate ways to worship it.

Le livre culte qui a inspiré le film de Denis Villeneuve. Paul Atréides vient d'avoir quinze ans. Les Révérendes Mères le surveillent : il est issu d'une lignée sélectionnée et a montré dès l'enfance des dons extraordinaires. Serait-il le surhomme prévu par leur programme génétique ? Leto, le père de Paul, est parent de l'empereur ; celui-ci lui remet en fief Dune, la planète des sables, qui produit l'épice de longue vie. Les Harkonnen, ses vieux ennemis, lui tendront là un piège fatal.

A warm day in Dublin, a crowded street corner. Suddenly, a car-bomb explodes, killing and injuring scores of innocent people.From the second-floor window of a building across the street, a visiting American watches, helpless, as his beloved wife and children are sacrificed in the heat and fire of someone else's cause.

At long last, millions of Dune fans can now hear the unpublished chapters and scenes from Dune and Dune Messiah. The Road to Dune also includes the original correspondence between Frank Herbert and famed editor John W. Campbell, Jr.; excerpts from Herbert's correspondence during his years-long struggle to get his innovative work published; and the article, "They Stopped the Moving Sands", Herbert's original inspiration for Dune.

EMASI! Each Man a Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps, the resistance force engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society driven entirely by opinion polls. Those who score high, the High-Opps, are given plush apartments, comfortable jobs, every possible convenience. But those who happen to be low-opped live crowded in warrens, facing harsh lives and brutal conditions.