num_pages: 681
description: 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 Dune—where we step onto the planet Arrakis…decades 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 renegades—and shapers of history.
language: English
title: House Atreides
titlecomplete: House Atreides (Prelude to Dune, #1)
characters: Leto Atreides, Vladimir Harkonnen
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Novels, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 26449
series: Dune Universe, Prelude to Dune
publisher: Bantam Spectra