Dune: House Atreides

Published by Spectra Books, 2000  softcover, 700 pages, condition: very good.

Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide. By 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 collaborate on a new novel, the prelude to Dunewhere we step onto the planet Arrakisdecades before Dune's hero, Paul Muad'Dib Atreides, walks its sands.

Here is the rich and complex world that Frank Herbert created, in the time leading up to the momentous events of Dune. As Emperor Elrood's son plots a subtle regicide, young Leto Atreides leaves for a year's education on the mechanized world of Ix; a planetologist named Pardot Kynes seeks the secrets of Arrakis; and the eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho is hunted by his cruel masters in a terrifying game from which he vows escape and vengeance. But none can envision the fate in store form them; one that will make them renegadesand shapers of history.

Coming back to this first prequel trilogy which basically tells the story of how Leto Atreides started his reign and how Shaddam started his and how baron Harkonnen pissed of the Bene Gesserit and became diseased.
It is an excellent and a good read and opens up a whole new chapter of the Duniverse, with this first installment of the House trilogy that started the continuation bookseries of Dune.
Is it Frank Herbert heck no. Is it Dune?- yes it certainly is and with Brian Herbert keeping his fathers legacy alive I personally enjoy the newer books. I am certain that his father would be pleased with the product his son and Kevin J. Anderson has delivered.

For people who enjoyed the Dune series it is an excellent book to enhance your reading fun.