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| | dragonsworn [book review] - The Machine Crusade, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson |
 | | After finally managing to create believable characters in 'The Butlerian Jihad', the authors have nullified their own work in the second novel. | | | The sequel to 'The Butlerian Jihad' continues the story of mankinds long fight against the thinking machines. | | | She serves as the figurehead of the Jihad, and Hebert and Anderson have essentially written her out of the book. |
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http://www.dragonsworn.com/reviews/books/machinecrusade.html
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| | The Second Butlerian Jihad |
| | Inquisitor Falster allowed the Guild heighliner to give him a tour of the Pharonic Empire, describing the Butlerian Jihad, the rise of the Padishah Imperium, Landsraad, CHOAM, the revolt of Arrakis, the ascention of Paul Muad'dib to the throne, and the birth and evolution of the God Emperor. | | | The tale of a new Jihad begins with the dawn of a new era. | | | War had been declared, and the God Emperor called for a Jihad. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/hi/cesarano/jihad.html
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| | Lorenzo DiTommaso- History and Historical Effect in Frank Herbert’s Dune |
| | The Butlerian Jihad provides a good illustration of this. | | | This chart should provide a guide to the more elaborate discussions of the particular ramifications of the Jihad given below, even though general topics such as "humanness" and "concept of inequality" cannot be as rigorously defined as they appear to be. | | | Even so, Paul realizes that his mother has been the ever-present Bene Gesserit hand guiding him towards the unwanted jihad: "My mother is my enemy. |
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http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/58/ditom58art.htm
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| | Pudding Time!: September 18, 2003 Archives |
| | Where these books are concerned, there's little to indicate they're what Frank Herbert had in mind, but they're clearly aimed to sate a sort of fanboy completionist urge to fill in every piece of back story Frank Herbert himself either never considered or didn't get around to writing. | | | Anyone who cared enough about "Dune" to own the encyclopedia probably read the entries pretty closely and figured out pretty quickly that some of the content was meant to be a humourous jape on both over-earnest fans and modern academics. | | | Imagine Patrick Henry played by Keanu Reeves, or the American Revolution as reenacted by a troupe of actors with voice modulation disorder and you've got a sense of how flaccid the depiction is. |
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http://www.puddingbowl.org/archives/2003_09_18.php
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| | Amazon.com: The Butlerian Jihad (Legends of Dune, Book 1): Books |
| | You really want to know what the Butlerian Jihad is. It's a great complling force in Frank's books and you want to know what happened. | | | The authors of the Butlerian Jihad could have written one as well. | | | Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559277548?v=glance
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| | Amazon.ca: The Butlerian Jihad: Books |
| | This book in particular could have been improved if the story was crafted in a way that the Jihad seemed more religious than a typical war. | | | Look for books like The Butlerian Jihad by subject: | | | This book, and the prequels gets two stars. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765340771
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| | Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert - Book |
| | to fuel a holy war a jihad against the evil machines!Xavier Harkonnen-Serena's lover and supreme commander of his planet, Salusa Secundus. | | | I'm dismayed to read the opinion that the sequel, the Machine Crusade, makes the Butlerian Jihad seem like a good book. | | | About 100% more thought should have been put into plotting this book. |
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http://www.sffworld.com/book/3151.html
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| | Legends of Dune: Butlerian Jihad, Machine Crusade, Battle of Corrin - Reviews, Dune 7, Buy |
| | Picked by Publishers Weekly as one the 2 bestselling Science Fiction novels of 2002, reaching the top ten bestseller lists across the country, DUNE: THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD has become a nationwide bestseller. | | | based around the events of the famous Butlerian Jihad, the epic conflict between humans and thinking machines that would ever change the universe | | | The book is plain excellent AND a bestseller! |
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http://www.geocities.com/dune_butlerian_jihad/legends.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Butlerian Jihad (Legends of Dune): Books |
| | The book tries to encapsulate the vast sweeps of time only hinted at by Frank Herbert in his original stable of books, (the dune trilogy) but it fails to achieve this. | | | I was glued to the pages of this book not because the plot was reverting or my imagination enhanced but because I kept thinking ok, this is a good introduction lets get to the real action the meat on the bones! | | | Jihad suggests fanaticism complete religious fervour in this respect this book is both implausible and misleading. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0340823313
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| | The Butlerian Jihad |
| | Dune: The Butlerian Jihad is a National Bestseller! | | | And on the backward, nearly forgotten planet of Arrakis, traders have discovered the remarkable properties of the spice melange. |
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http://www.dunenovels.com/books/butlerianjihad.html
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| | Experiments in Woolgathering » “The Butlerian Jihad” by Brian Herbert and Keven J. Anderson |
| | Despite the grand setting and events, and as in the original series, the book focuses mainly on the characters, though there are more main characters in Jihad and this of course keeps the book from being simply a history book. | | | How would my opinion of Jihad be different without my knowledge of the original 6 novels? | | | And both authors brought their respective non-prose interests into their books – in Tolkien’s case it was lingustics and poetry, and in Herberts, ecology, religion and sociology. |
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http://cary.ratatosk.org/?p=80
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| | JIHAD |
| | In this context, the relationship between inner and outer jihad is explicit. | | | Jihad is an Arabic word which comes from the Arabic root word "jahada"; which means "exerting utmost effort". | | | There is a punk band that has chosen the word Jihad for it's name. |
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http://www.yotor.org/wiki/en/ji/Jihad.htm
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| | Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson Dune: The Butlerian Jihad Reviewed by RIck Kleffel |
| | 'The Butlerian Jihad' is written in the style of a best selling thriller, with alternate chapters telling the tales of numerous characters, most of whom come to meet in the narrative of the novel. | | | 'The Butlerian Jihad' is a pleasure to read. | | | 'Dune: The Butlerian Jihad' offers a curiously pleasing combination of soap opera in space, retro science fiction and cleverly plotted revelatory satisfaction. |
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http://trashotron.com/agony/reviews/herbert_anderson-butlerian.htm
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| | Dune: The Butlerian Jihad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The book introduces us to the first generation of characters that will eventually become the great families. | | | This page is about the novel Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. | | | The novel is set at the beginning of Butlerian Jihad, which is a war between the thinking machines created by mankind led by Omnius, a sentient computer, and the League of Nobles, who are the last free humans. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune:_The_Butlerian_Jihad
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| | Dune: The Butlerian Jihad |
| | One interesting twist in Jihad is the reversal of the Atreides=hero/ Harkonnen=villain dichotomy of the later (chronologically speaking) books. | | | Merely hinted at is the great Jihad that overthrew the Thinking Machines thousands of years ago - a Jihad that took its name from its most famous hero - Serena Butler. | | | Advanced computers or anything even resembling a "thinking machine" are the most profound taboo in his culture. |
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http://www.scifidimensions.com/Sep02/jihad.htm
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| | Cinescape - Home - Editorial |
| | Unfortunately for THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD, the story fall short. | | | The books were instantly a huge success and showed that there was a tremendous appetite for new DUNE stories. | | | Even the origins of the blood feud between House Atreides and House Harkonnen have to be explained here in JIHAD. |
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http://www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Books&action=page&type_id=270289&cat_id=0&obj_id=40054
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| | sffworld.com - The Butlerian Jihad |
| | I like this book very much, as it answers questions I've long had about the thinking machines and the reasons for the banning of computer-minds in the Dune books. | | | This jihad is mentioned in the Dune books and occurred about 10000 years (or was it 15000) before the events in the first Dune book. | | | I think I am a purist when it comes to the Dune series, and anything Brian Herbert writes that contradicts what Frank Herbert wrote is his own liberties, and not to be taken seriously. |
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http://www.sffworld.com/forums/printthread.php?t=3542
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| | DUNE: THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD was just selected by LIBRARY JOURNAL as one of the Best Books of 2002. | | | Also, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY announced that BUTLERIAN JIHAD was one of the top two best-selling science fiction books of all 2002. | | | The new trilogy set in the world of Frank Herbert's classic Dune explores ancient prehistory, revealing the critical events that precede the epic war against thinking machinesâ"the Butlerian Jihad"and detailing the origins of societies such as the Bene Gesserit. |
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http://www.caveofbirds.com/kudos.html
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| | 11/07/00: Dune-Fans, check this out.. |
| | Tentative titles are: Book 1, THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD, Book 2, THE MACHINE CRUSADE, and Book 3, THE BATTLE OF CORRIN. | | | Establishing the genesis of Frank Herbert's DUNE universe, THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD Trilogy will detail the saga of the century-long conflict, as well as the original breach that formed the deadly feud between House Atreides and House Harkonnen. | | | The contract for three books, with an advance of a solid seven figures per novel, calls for the volumes to be published annually, so DUNE fans will have plenty more to read in years to come. |
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http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/legendofbaggervance/27.html
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| | The Spectrum of Space Opera The Agony Column for October 3, 2002 Commentary by Rick Kleffel |
| | I'll start out with a recent and oddly light entry into the world of space opera, the retro-SF bestseller 'Dune: The Butlerian Jihad', by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. | | | It might also hook me if I was 52, had never read a science fiction novel in my life, and my only experience of science fiction came from 'Star *'. | | | If I was 12 today, 'Dune: The Butlerian Jihad' could very well be the novel that would hook me on science fiction. |
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http://trashotron.com/agony/columns/10-03-02.htm
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| | dragonsworn [book review] - The Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson |
| | A story never told, but only subtly mentioned, tantalizing hints scattered throughout the novels. | | | The Butlerian Jihad - a war that saw the birth of the Bene Gesserit, the Spacing Guild, the Zensunni wanderers, the Orange Catholic Bible, and the Imperium itself. | | | Free humanity is relegated to a handful of planets, controlled by the League of Nobles. |
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http://www.dragonsworn.com/reviews/books/butlerianjihad.html
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| | The paintbrush of history has depicted Abulurd Harkonnen in a most unfavorable light. | | | Chief commandment resulting from the Butlerian Jihad, found in the Orange Catholic Bible. | | | The leaders of the Butlerian Jihad did not adequately define artificial intelligence, failing to foresee all possibilities of an imaginative society. |
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http://www.caveofbirds.com/dune/dunehouseatreidesq.html
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| | Legends of Dune |
| | I'd recommend reading the main book first, though. | | | In spite of the title, we are not reading about the Jihad itself; what we actually get is the spark that lights the fuse, and it reaches the end near the book's finish. | | | Mercenaries of the world of Ginaz are a potent force in this war, and Jool Noret is very likely the first who could be called a Swordmaster-even though he crowds out everything else in his life to bring destruction to the machines (and he's undergone a very interesting method of training, all things considered). |
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http://members.cox.net/storytellersarchivist/butlerian.html
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| | Encyclopedia: Butlerian Jihad |
| | The characters Serena Butler and Xavier Harkonnen ignite a war to liberate mankind from the grip of their mechanised overlords. | | | The leader of the Jihad then renamed his royal house "House Corrino", and declared himself Emperor of the Known Universe. | | | They represent the Jihad as a struggle between humans and the machines, where the characters Serena Butler and Xavier Harkonnen ignite a war to liberate mankind from the grip of their mechanised overlords. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Butlerian-Jihad
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| | The Machine Crusade (Legends of Dune, Book 2) - DVD film: Totaltiorden.dk |
| | For starters, the first 200 pages of The Machine Crusade are a complete and total waist of time as the authors spend all of their time polemicising The Butlerian Jihad. | | | But there are books to be sold and publishing houses to keep fat, so they turned two Dune novels into a trilogy, making hard core Dune fans like myself shell out an additional $30.00 just to read a book that should never have been written. | | | More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in The Butlerian Jihad. |
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http://www.totaltiorden.dk/shop/dvd_details.php/076530158Xdvd
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| | 12/05/02: And for the venerable JYD: My review of "The Butlerian Jihad" |
| | Once again, Kevin "The Worst Writer in the Known Universe" Anderson and Brian "Boy, he must have really hated his father" Herbert have written a first book that definitely piques the interest.. | | | There are some portions of the book that are kind of dull... | | | If you're a Dune fan, "Butlerian" is worth your time, if for nothing else then for the last quarter of the story alone.. |
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| | Bookreporter.com - DUNE: THE Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson |
| | THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD worthily continues DUNE's original power to draw even the least empathic reader into fascinating realms of morality, philosophy and sheer rampant surprise. | | | To say anything sensible at all about THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD, the long awaited beginning-before-the-beginning of Frank Herbert's perennially successful "Dune Chronicles," some background is essential. | | | But like so many enormous projects --- especially inherited ones --- THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD falls into some common traps. |
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http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/0765301571.asp
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| | valugi - - by valugi |
| | This story spotlights events between The Butlerian Jihad | | | This story takes place just prior to The Butlerian Jihad | | | A Tale of the Butlerian Jihad (BH and KJA) |
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http://my.opera.com/valugi
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| | The Butlerian Jihad (Dune (Paperback)) Book at Shop Ireland |
| | I loved the three House novels(inconsistencies aside, where did the friendship with the Ixian Royal House fit in?). | | | I think the Butlerian Jihad was just not the major event Frank Herbert had refered to... | | | The Butlerian Jihad (Dune (Paperback)) Book at Shop Ireland |
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| | Gavin's Blog: The Butlerian Jihad |
| | I liked the introduction of characters like Vorian Atreides and Xavier Harkonnen, and the difference between their characters and that of their descendants. | | | This afternoon I finished the fourth book by the collaboration of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, “The Butlerian Jihad”. | | | I’ve quite enjoyed these prequels to Dune so far, this novel was a little flat in the middle but overall a good weekend read. |
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| | Frank Herbert Quiz List -- Free Quizzes, Games, Fun Facts, Trivia |
| | The story shifts primarily to Earth, where the actions of a few individuals unexpectedly trigger the Jihad. | | | This quiz covers the first part of this amazing book by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. | | | The "Legends of Dune" Trilogy continues with "The Machine Crusade." We now know all the characters, so we are free to revel in this fascinating universe as the heroes and villains play out their victories and tragedies across the galaxy. |
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| | OmniNerd - Comment: Reply to Butlerian Jihad in the future? |
| | For those that are not "Dune&; fans, the Butlerian Jihad was the backlash against the thinking machines in the novel. | | | However, in general, there should be some limitations on what is available for a person to do, even if it is only the cost. | | | OmniNerd - Comment: Reply to Butlerian Jihad in the future? |
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| | Butlerian Jihad Excerpt |
| | This is an excerpt from DUNE: THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD, available now from Tor Books (US) and Hodder and Stoughton (UK). | | | Far from thinking machines and the League of Nobles, the desert never changed. | | | Instead, the worm careened into the deep desert. |
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http://www.dunenovels.com/news/jihad_excerpt.html
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| | Different factions within the house warred against the other until they were brought together by the Butlerian Jihad, and in a stroke of bravery destroyed the cyborg Holtzman, an event that ended the Butlerian Jihad and restored peace and order to the universe. | | | 2.3.4 Ix Again, House Ginaz is traditionally distrustful of the Ixians, because of the Butlerian Jihad and the destruction of Planet Ginaz by Holtzman; therefore the Ginaz would treat the Ixians in much the same way as they would the Tleilaxu, and perhaps with more distrust. | | | Fighting intensifies on Ginaz because of its location as the first inhabited planet in Holtzman's path. |
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http://www.dune3.net/handbooks/ginaz.txt
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| | Science Fiction Book Reviews |
| | Using scores of characters across several worlds, they tell a sprawling story of sacrifice, terror, bravery, ingenuity and personal tragedy. | | | In a "widescreen baroque" manner, Herbert and Anderson chronicle this war, which soon becomes known as the Butlerian Jihad. |
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http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue281/books2.html
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| | The Kansas City Star (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service): `Dune: The Butlerian Jihad'; `The Collected ... |
| | `Dune: The Butlerian Jihad'; `The Collected Stories of Greg Bear'; Belgariad series. | | | But the heroine of "Dune: The Butlerian Jihad" (612 pages; Tor; $27.95) does more than talk; her reckless behavior can rally complacent nobles and downtrodden captives to action. | | | The Kansas City Star (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service): `Dune: The Butlerian Jihad'; `The Collected Stories of Greg Bear'; Belgariad series.@ HighBeam Research |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:120061392&refid=holomed_1
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| | Sequential Tart - The Report Card |
| | The Butlerian Jihad is mentioned throughout the original Dune series; it's the war to free humans from machines, and the origin of the oft-repeated tenet "thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind." This should be a really good story. | | | I would have preferred to see Frank's notes instead — I'm always nervous when someone touches someone else's universe without their oversight. | | | Herbert/Anderson chose third person omniscient POV for Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, and head-jumping prevails. |
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http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/apr04/reports.php?ID=3530&issue=2004-11-01
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| | TRN's View from the High Ground: Georgia Tech's Ronald Arkin |
| | ], especially those aspects surrounding the so-called Butlerian Jihad, where mankind is struggling to free itself from the tyranny of a universe of robot domination. | | | Arkin: The Dune Prequels co-written by Frank Herbert's son are an interesting read [The Butlerian Jihad | | | TRN: What books that have some connection to science or technology have impressed you in some way, and why? |
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http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/091205/View_Ronald_Arkin_091205.html
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| | Dune: The Butlerian Jihad - Brian Herbert - Kevin J. Anderson - Palm Reader eBook |
| | Here is the tale of how Serena Butler's passionate grief ignites the war that will liberate humans from their machine masters. | | | Against the brute efficiency of the Machines, the human race has only imagination, compassion, and the capacity for love. | | | Now Herbert and Anderson, working from Frank Herbert's own notes, reveal the chapter of the Dune saga most eagerly anticipated by readers: The Butlerian Jihad. |
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| | The Butlerian Jihad |
| | DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES, DUNE: HOUSE HARKONNEN and DUNE: HOUSE CORRINO, quickly rose to bestseller lists everywhere and forged a whole new generation of DUNE fans. | | | Now Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, in this first novel in an exciting new trilogy, based in part upon Frank Herbert's unpublished notes, reveal a pivotal epoch in the history of the DUNE universe, the chapter of the DUNE saga most eagerly anticipated by readers -- the Butlerian Jihad. | | | In the original DUNE Chronicles, Frank Herbert created a future history spanning 40,000 years. |
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| | The Butlerian Jihad, by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson, Reviewed by Robin Knight! |
| | I have not been, till now, a fan of novels added to a series by a writer other than the original author of the parent work, even when the original worker is claiming part responsibility, as with Anne MCaffrey and Arthur C Clarke in their later "collaborations". | | | And Dune Legends:The Butlerian Jihad begins a new series by this successful partnership, whose prose style becomes steadily more melded and welded until almost seamless in its utilization of Frank Herbert's style and vision. | | | Above all, this novel creates DUNE Atmosphere, and, in the process, equips us well to go back and reread all the original Dune novels in the bookcase! |
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http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/1057/rev35TheButlerianJihad.html
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