House Corrino
House Corrino (Dune: House Trilogy, Book 3) BRIAN HERBERT, KEVIN ANDERSON
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553580337
Edition: Paperback; 2002-08-27
Summary:
The triumphant conclusion to the blockbuster trilogy that made
science fiction history!In Dune: House Corrino Brian Herbert and
Kevin J. Anderson bring us the magnificent final chapter in the
unforgettable saga begun in Dune: House Atreides and continued in
Dune: House Harkonnen. Here nobles and commoners, soldiers and
slaves, wives and courtesans shape the amazing destiny of a
tumultuous universe. An epic saga of love and war, crime and
politics, religion and revolution, this magnificent novel is a
fitting conclusion to a great science fiction trilogy ... and an
invaluable addition to the thrilling world of Frank Herbert’s
immortal Dune.Dune: House CorrinoFearful of losing his precarious
hold on the Golden Lion Throne, Shaddam IV, Emperor of a Million
Worlds, has devised a radical scheme to develop an alternative to
melange, the addictive spice that binds the Imperium together and
that can be found only on the desert world of Dune. In subterranean
labs on the machine planet Ix, cruel Tleilaxu overlords use slaves
and prisoners as part of a horrific plan to manufacture a synthetic
form of melange known as amal. If amal can supplant the spice from
Dune, it will give Shaddam what he seeks: absolute power.But Duke
Leto Atreides, grief-stricken yet unbowed by the tragic death of his
son Victor, determined to restore the honor and prestige of his
House, has his own plans for Ix. He will free the Ixians from their
oppressive conquerors and restore his friend Prince Rhombur, injured
scion of the disgraced House Vernius, to his rightful place as Ixian
ruler. It is a bold and risky venture, for House Atreides has limited
military resources and many ruthless enemies, including the sadistic
Baron Harkonnen, despotic master of Dune. Meanwhile, Duke Leto’s
consort, the beautiful Lady Jessica, obeying the orders of her
superiors in the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, has conceived a child that
the Sisterhood intends to be the penultimate step in the creation of
an all-powerful being. Yet what the Sisterhood doesn’t know is that
the child Jessica is carrying is not the girl they are expecting, but
a boy. Jessica’s act of disobedience is an act of love — her attempt
to provide her Duke with a male heir to House Atreides — but an act
that, when discovered, could kill both mother and baby. Like the Bene
Gesserit, Shaddam Corrino is also concerned with making a plan for
the future — securing his legacy. Blinded by his need for power, the
Emperor will launch a plot against Dune, the only natural source of
true spice. If he succeeds, his madness will result in a cataclysmic
tragedy not even he foresees: the end of space travel, the Imperium,
and civilization itself.With Duke Leto and other renegades and
revolutionaries fighting to stem the tide of darkness that threatens
to engulf their universe, the stage is set for a showdown unlike any
seen before.From the Paperback edition.
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