A prequel to Frank Herbert's science fiction novel "Dune" journeys back to the planet Arrakis to visit the extraordinary desert world decades before Paul Atreides arrives to change the history of the universe.

"Thousands of years ago, the god Kur created the first race, the wreth, who were beautiful and powerful in magic. He commanded them to destroy Ossus, the dragon at the heart of the world. for this task, the wreth needed servants, slaves, and soldiers, so they created a lesser race of their own - the humans - who fought and died at their side. The land was devastated by their magical warfare, and the wreths in time exterminated each other. Now, millennia...

"Two continents at war: the Three Kingdoms and Ishara have been in conflict for a thousand years. But when an outside threat arises--the reawakening of a powerful ancient race that wants to remake the world--the two warring nations must somehow set aside generations of hatred to form an alliance against a far more deadly enemy. Book one awakened the great dragon, and set the kingdoms at each other's throats. In book two, Vengewar, bitter rivalry and...

"Shaddam Corrino IV, Emperor of the Known Universe, has risked everything to create a substitute for the spice melange . . .The substance that makes space travel possible . . . That prolongs life . . . That allows prescience . . . A substance that is found only on the desert planet Arrakis, a harsh world of storms and monstrous sandworms. Shaddam has used the noble houses as chess pieces for his scheme, causing the overthrow of powerful families,...

"Before Dune . . .The epic tale of Duke Leto Atreides and his rise to power . . . The fierce ambitions of his mortal enemy, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen . . . The struggles of the young girl Jessica, the Baron's secret daughter, under the harsh training of the Sisterhood school . . . The schemes of Shaddam Corrino to create a synthetic spice that may bring unlimited wealth, or cause the collapse of the Spacing Guild . . . And the implausible dream of...

The growing battle between Jessica and her daughter, Alia, continues as Alia tries to hold the Imperial government together with Duncan and Bronso of Ix seems to be leading the opposition against the House of Atreides. "The Winds of Dune" begins after the events of "Dune Messiah."

"In the fifth book of The Saga of Seven Suns, a climactic battle begins between the Ildiran Solar Navy, the Earth Defense Forces, the Roamers, green priests, Klikiss robots, and hydrogue warglobes--a fury that will destroy many and change the landscape of the Spiral Arm forever"--Provided by publisher

The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years. The human world grows weary of bloody and inconclusive war. As their numbers dwindle, the fearsome cymeks, led by Agamemnon, hatch new plots to regain their lost power from Omnius. Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva are on the verge of the most important discovery in human history--a way to "fold" space and travel to any place in the galaxy. And on the far-away, nearly worthless planet...