The Road to Dune
Dune
- By: Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert & Frank Herbert
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
Description
Frank Herbert's Dune is widely known as the science fiction equivalent of The Lord of the Rings, and The Road to Dune is a companion work comparable to The Silmarillion, shedding light on and following the remarkable development of the bestselling science fiction novel of all time.
Herein, the world's millions of Dune fans can now read---at long last---the unpublished chapters and scenes from Dune and Dune Messiah.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.
The Road to Dune features newly discovered papers and manuscripts of Frank Herbert, and also "Spice Planet," an original sixty-thousand-word short novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, based on a detailed outline left by Frank Herbert.
The Road to Dune is a treasure trove of essays, articles, and fiction that every reader of Dune will want to add to their shelf.
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Dune Series
Dune: Duke of Caladan
By: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 15 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A legend begins in Dune: The Duke of Caladan, first in The Caladan Trilogy by New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Leto Atreides, Duke of Caladan and father of the Muad'Dib. While all know of his fall and the rise of his son, little is known about the quiet ruler of Caladan and his partner Jessica. Or how a... Read more »
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Dune: House Atreides
By: Kevin J. Anderson & Brian Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 26 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide. By the time of his death in 1986, Herbert had completed six novels in the series, but much of his vision remained unwritten. Now, working from his father's recently discovered files, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson... Read more »
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Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
By: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 23 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
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Dune: House Harkonnen
By: Kevin J. Anderson & Brian Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 26 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson return to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert's Dune, bringing a vast array of rich and complex characters into conflict to shape the destiny of worlds. As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House Atreides—and against the mysterious... Read more »
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Dune: The Machine Crusade
By: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 27 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The breathtaking vision and incomparable storytelling of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, a prequel to Frank Herbert's classic Dune, propelled it to the ranks of speculative fiction's classics in its own right. Now, with all the color, scope, and fascination of the prior novel, comes Dune: The Machine Crusade.
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Dune: The Battle of Corrin
By: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 25 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Dune: The Battle of Corrin
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Dune: House Corrino
By: Kevin J. Anderson & Brian Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 24 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
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,... Read more »
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Hunters of Dune
By: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 20 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Book One in the classic conclusion to Frank Herbert's worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles
Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. Based... Read more »
God Emperor of Dune
By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Simon Vance, Scott Brick & Katherine Kellgren
Length: 15 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in Frank Herbert's 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... Read more »
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Sandworms of Dune
By: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 19 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Book Two in the stunning conclusion to Frank Herbert's worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles
At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune's... Read more »
Paul of Dune
By: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 18 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Paul of Dune is a sci-fi adventure novel everyone will want to read and no one will be able to forget.
"Scott Brick delivers a powerful and entertaining reading reminiscent of a theatrical performance in a brilliant one-man show. Brick's voice is ideally suited to this extraordinary tale; no doubt he studied the prose of each novel to capture... Read more »
The Winds of Dune
By: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 17 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
With their usual skill, Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have taken ideas left behind by Frank Herbert and filled them with living characters and a true sense of wonder. Where Paul of Dune picked up the saga directly after the events of Dune, The Winds of Dune begins after the events of Dune Messiah.
Paul has walked off into the sand, blind, and... Read more »
Sisterhood of Dune
By: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 20 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
It is eighty-Three years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler took the name of Corrino and established himself as the first Emperor of a new Imperium. Great changes are brewing that will shape and twist all of humankind.
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Mentats of Dune
By: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 22 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Mentats of Dune, the thinking machines have been defeated but the struggle for humanity's future continues.
Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and... Read more »
Navigators of Dune
By: Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 18 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Navigators of Dune is the climactic finale of the Great Schools of Dune trilogy, set 10,000 years before Frank Herbert's classic Dune.
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Children of Dune
By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Simon Vance & Scott Brick
Length: 16 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Frank Herbert's bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, 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... Read more »
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Heretics of Dune
By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 18 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Heretics of Dune, the fifth installment in Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi series.
On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, ten times ten 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... Read more »
Chapterhouse Dune
By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren & Euan Morton
Length: 16 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
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. Read more »
Dune
By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance & Ilyana Kadushin
Length: 21 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
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The Road to Dune
By: Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert & Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Frank Herbert's Dune is widely known as the science fiction equivalent of The Lord of the Rings, and The Road to Dune is a companion work comparable to The Silmarillion, shedding light on and following the remarkable development of the bestselling science fiction novel of all time.
Herein, the world's millions of Dune fans can now read---at long... Read more »
Dune Messiah
By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Euan Morton, Simon Vance & Katherine Kellgren
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
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 a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an... Read more »
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Seaside Secrets
By: Cindy Bell
Narrated by: Sara Morsey
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
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