Frank Herbert
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Chapterhouse Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 16 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: February 17, 2009
- Language: English
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3.91(12916 ratings)
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 moreChildren of Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: February 19, 2008
- Language: English
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3.96(48941 ratings)
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 contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet’s economy. Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides’s twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions–but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens…
... Read moreDestination: Void
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.61(4326 ratings)
The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hibernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship’s three organic mental cores—disembodied human brains that control the vessel’s functions—go insane. The emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: build an artificial consciousness in the Earthling‘s primary computer that can guide them to their destination—and hope it doesn’t destroy the human race.
Don’t miss Frank Herbert’s classic novel that begins the epic Pandora Sequence.
... Read moreDirect Descent
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.24(710 ratings)
A library planet: the greatest treasure, the deadliest weapon
Earth has become a library planet over the last several thousand years, a bastion of both useful and useless knowledge—esoterica of all types: history, science, politics—gathered by teams of “pack rats” who scour the galaxy for any scrap of information. Knowledge is power, knowledge is wealth, and knowledge can be a weapon. As powerful dictators come and go over the course of history, the cadre of dedicated librarians is sworn to obey the lawful government—and use their wits to protect the treasure trove of knowledge they have collected over the millennia.
... Read moreDune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 21 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 29, 2007
- Language: English
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4.26(416178 ratings)
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothee Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgard, and Charlotte Rampling.
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad’dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family–and would bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.
A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. Frank Herbert’s death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever.
... Read moreDune Messiah
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 04, 2007
- Language: English
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3.89(89446 ratings)
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 ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men. But the question is: Do all paths of glory lead to the grave?
... Read moreGod Emperor of Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: June 24, 2008
- Language: English
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3.87(26611 ratings)
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 certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species. But to achieve his final victory, Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall . . .
... Read moreHellstrom’s Hive
- By: Frank Herbert
- Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: April 07, 2008
- Language: English
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3.69(3497 ratings)
America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: insects.
When the Agency discovered that Dr. Hellstrom’s Project 40 was a cover for a secret laboratory, a special team of agents was immediately dispatched to discover its true purpose and its weaknesses-it could not be allowed to continue. What they discovered was a nightmare more horrific and hideous than even their paranoid government minds could devise.
First published in Galaxy magazine in 1973 as “Project 40,” Frank Herbert’s vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction.
Heretics of Dune
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 18 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 14, 2008
- Language: English
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3.88(16527 ratings)
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 struggle to direct the future of Dune. The children of Dune’s children awaken as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love.
High-Opp
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.42(413 ratings)
Published posthumously, this dystopian novel was written between Frank Herbert’s classics The Dragon in the Sea and Dune.
EMASI! Each Man A Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps, the resistance force engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society driven entirely by opinion polls. Those who score high, the High-Opps, are given plush apartments, comfortable jobs, every possible convenience. But those who happen to be low-opped live crowded in warrens, facing harsh lives and brutal conditions.
Daniel Movius, ex–senior liaitor, rides high in the opinion polls—until he loses everything, brushed aside by a very powerful man. Low-opped and abandoned, Movius finds himself fighting for survival in the city’s underworld. There, the opinion of the masses is clear: it is time for a revolution against the corrupt superprivileged—and every revolution needs a leader.
... Read moreMan of Two Worlds
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.43(744 ratings)
Frank Herbert’s last published novel is a charming and witty science fiction adventure coauthored with his son Brian.
What if the entire universe were the creation of alien minds? After an unfortunate spaceship accident, the hedonistic human Lutt Hansen Jr. finds himself sharing his body and mind with a na+>>ve alien dreamer. Together the two must survive dangers, schemes, and assassination attempts–but can they survive each other?
... Read moreSoul Catcher
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.7(1101 ratings)
Katsuk, a militant Native American student, has kidnapped thirteen-year-old David Marshall–the son of the US undersecretary of state. He and his young hostage flee into the deepest wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where they must work together to survive as teams of hunters try to track them. Even as he struggles to escape, David begins to feel a certain amount of respect for his captor. What the boy does not know, however, is that he has been chosen as an innocent from the white world for an ancient sacrifice of vengeance. And Katsuk may be divinely inspired–or simply insane.
This tale of vengeance and sacrifice touches upon many Native American myths even as it reveals various truths in its antihero.
... Read moreThe Ascension Factor
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.74(1347 ratings)
Set twenty-five years after The Lazarus Effect, this final book in the Destination: Void collaboration between Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom concludes the story of the planet Pandora.
Pandora’s humans have been recovering land from its raging seas at an accelerated pace since The Lazarus Effect. The great kelp of the seas, sentient but electronically manipulated by humans, buffers Pandora’s wild currents to restore land and facilitate the booming sea trade. New settlements rise overnight, but children starve in their shadows. An orbiting assembly station is near completion of Project Voidship, which is the hope of many for finding a better world.
Pandora is under the fist of an ambitious clone from hibernation called the Director, who rules with a sadistic security force led by the assassin Spider Nevi. Small resistance groups have had little effect on his absolute power. The Director controls the transportation of foodstuffs; uprisings are punished with starvation.
The resistance fighters’ main hope is Crista Galli, a woman believed by some to be the child of God. Crista pools her talents with Dwarf MacIntosh, Beatriz Tatoosh, and Rico LaPush to transcend the barriers between the different species and overthrow the Director and the sinister cabal with which he rules.
... Read moreThe Dosadi Experiment
- By: Frank Herbert
- Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: October 20, 2010
- Language: English
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3.82(7392 ratings)
Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, conditioned by constant hunger and war-this is the Dosadi Experiment, and it has succeeded too well. For the Dosadi have bred for vengeance as well as cunning, and they have learned how to pass through the shimmering God Wall to exact their dreadful revenge on the Universe that created them…
... Read moreThe Dragon in the Sea
- By: Frank Herbert
- Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: November 15, 2008
- Language: English
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4.31(32 ratings)
In the twenty-first century, the United States has all but used up its oil supply. A new source must be found. Our atomic subtugs begin stealing oil from underwater deposits in enemy territory. But none of the last twenty tugs sent to bring back the desperately needed mineral have returned. Ensign John Ramsey of the Bureau of Psychology is planted aboard the Fenian Ram S1881 as an electronics officer. His assignment: find the saboteur in the four-man crew and bring back the oil.
... Read moreThe Dune Audio Collection
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Frank Herbert
- Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Caedmon
- Publish date: April 24, 2007
- Language: English
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3.54(50 ratings)
Read by the author, this compilation of key excerpts from the brilliant Dune trilogy is melded with connective text written by Frank Herbert specifically for these recordings. Includes selections from Dune: The Banquet Scene, Sandworms of Dune, The Battles of Dune, and The Truths of Dune: Fear is the Mind Killer.
... Read moreThe Eyes of Heisenberg
- By: Frank Herbert
- Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: August 17, 2010
- Language: English
Public Law 10927 was clear and direct. Parents were permitted to watch the genetic alterations of their gametes by skilled surgeons…only no one ever requested it.
When Lizbeth and Harvey Durant decided to invoke the Law, when Dr. Potter did not rearrange the most unusual genetic structure of their future son, barely an embryo growing in the State’s special vat-the consequences of these decisions threatened to be catastrophic.
For never before had anyone dared defy the Rulers’ decrees…and if They found out, it was well known that the price of disobedience was the extermination of the human race.
The Godmakers
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.62(2156 ratings)
On the edge of a war-weary and devastated galaxy, charismatic Lewis Orne has landed on Hamal. His assignment: to detect any signs of latent aggression in this planet’s population. To his astonishment, he finds that his own latent extrasensory powers have suddenly blossomed, and he is invited to join the company of “gods” on this planet–and the people here place certain expectations on their gods.
The Godmakers is an expansion of four short stories written from 1958-1960. It is an exploration of the concepts of war and peace, government and relgion.
... Read moreThe Green Brain
- By: Frank Herbert
- Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: August 31, 2010
- Language: English
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3.31(1915 ratings)
In an overpopulated world seeking living room in the jungles, the International Ecological Organization was systematically exterminating the voracious insects that made these areas uninhabitable. Using deadly foamal bombs and newly developed vibration weapons, men like Joao Martinho and his coworkers fought to clear the green hell of the Mato Grosso.
But somehow those areas that had been completely cleared were becoming reinfested, despite the impenetrable vibration barriers. And tales were coming out of the jungles-tales of insects mutated to incredible sizes, of creatures who seemed to be men but whose eyes gleamed with the chitinous sheen of insects…
The Heaven Makers
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.46(724 ratings)
Immortal aliens have observed Earth for centuries, making full sensory movies of wars, natural disasters, and horrific human activities–all to relieve their endless boredom. When they finally become jaded by ordinary, run-of-the-mill tragedies, they find ways to create their own disasters, just to amuse themselves.
But interfering with human activities is forbidden, and the authorities have been known to check on these matters from time to time. However, by the time Investigator Kelexel arrives to investigate, the trouble has been going on for a long, long time–and things are really getting out of hand.
... Read moreThe Jesus Incident
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 16 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.73(5419 ratings)
The last survivors of humanity have just been deposited on Pandora, a horrific, poisonous planet rife with deadly nerve-runners, hooded dashers, airborne jellyfish, and intelligent kelp. The determined colonists attempt to establish a bridgehead on the deadly, inhospitable planet, but more trouble arises. Their sentient ship—backed up by an impressive array of armaments—has decided it is God and is insisting the colonists find appropriate ways to worship it.
In an attempt to help the people pass its test, Ship awakens chaplain-psychiatrist Raja Flattery from hybernation. Either the humans pass the test—or the human race could be destroyed.
... Read moreThe Lazarus Effect
- By: Frank Herbert
- Narrator: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.77(3699 ratings)
The exciting sequel to The Jesus Incident, one of the greatest adventures since Dune.
A world of water…
In The Jesus Incident Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom introduced Ship, an artificial intelligence that believed it was God, abandoning its unworthy human cargo on the all-sea world of Pandora. Now centuries have passed. The descendants of humanity, split into Mermen and Islanders, must reunite—because Pandora’s original owner is returning to life.
... Read moreThe Santaroga Barrier
- By: Frank Herbert
- Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: October 20, 2010
- Language: English
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3.68(2147 ratings)
Santaroga seemed to be nothing more than a prosperous farm community. But there was something…different…about Santaroga.
Santaroga had no juvenile delinquency, or any crime at all. Outsiders found no house for sale or rent in this valley, and no one ever moved out. No one bought cigarettes in Santaroga. No cheese, wine, beer, or produce from outside the valley could be sold there. The list went on and on and grew stranger and stranger.
Maybe Santaroga was the last outpost of American individualism. Maybe they were just a bunch of religious kooks….
Or maybe there was something extraordinary at work in Santaroga. Something far more disturbing than anyone could imagine.
The White Plague
- By: Frank Herbert
- Length: 19 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: December 22, 2008
- Language: English
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3.7(6372 ratings)
A warm day in Dublin, a crowded street corner. Suddenly, a car-bomb explodes, killing and injuring scores of innocent people.
From the second-floor window of a building across the street, a visiting American watches, helpless, as his beloved wife and children are sacrificed in the heat and fire of someone else’s cause.
From this shocking beginning, the author of the phenomenal Dune series has created a masterpiece.
The White Plague is a marvelous and terrifyingly plausible blend of fiction and visionary theme. It tells of one man’s revenge, of the man watching from the window who is pushed over the edge of sanity by the senseless murder of his family and who, reappearing several months later as the so-called Madman, unleashes a terrible vengeance upon the human race. For John Roe O’Neill is a molecular biologist who has the knowledge, and now the motivation, to devise and disseminate a genetically carried plague-a plague to which, like those that scourged mankind centuries ago, there is no antidote, but one that zeros in, unerringly and fatally, on women. As the world slowly recognizes the reality of peril, as its politicians and scientists strive desperately to save themselves and their society from the prospect of human extinction, so does Frank Herbert grapple with one of the great themes of contemporary life: the enormous dangers that lurk at the dark edges of science.
The White Plague is a prophetic, believable, and utterly compelling novel.
Whipping Star
- By: Frank Herbert
- Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: May 12, 2008
- Language: English
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3.67(3505 ratings)
In the far future, humankind has made contact with numerous other species-Gowachin, Laclac, Wreaves, Pan Spechi, Taprisiots, and Caleban (among others)-and has helped to form the ConSentiency to govern between the species. After suffering under a tyrannous pure democracy that had the power to create laws so fast that no thought could be given to the effects, the sentients of the galaxy found a need for the Bureau of Sabotage (BuSab) to slow the wheels of government, thereby preventing it from legislating recklessly.
In Whipping Star, Jorj X. McKie, a “Saboteur Extraordinary,” is a born troublemaker who has naturally become one of BuSab’s best agents. As the novel opens, it is revealed that Calebans, who are beings visible to other sentient species as stars, have been disappearing one by one. Each disappearance is accompanied by millions of sentient deaths and instances of incurable insanity.
Ninety years prior to the setting of Whipping Star, the Calebans appeared and offered jump-doors to the collective species, allowing sentients to travel instantly to any point in the universe. Gratefully accepting, the sentiency didn’t question the consequences. Now Mliss Abnethe, a psychotic human female with immense power and wealth, has bound a Caleban in a contract that allows the Caleban to be whipped to death; when the Caleban dies, everyone who has ever used a jump-door (which is almost every adult in the sentient world and many of the young) will die as well.
The Calebans have attempted to remedy the error, but Mliss Abnethe refuses to cancel the contract, and the Caleban sense of honor makes breaking the contract from their side unthinkable. To save themselves, all the Calebans are handing over the time-like history lines of the sentients who used jump-doors to one Caleban, Fannie Mae, and withdrawing from ConSentiency space. McKie has to find Mliss and stop her before Fannie Mae reaches, in her words, “ultimate discontinuity,” but he is constrained by the law protecting private individuals by restricting the ministrations of BuSab to public entities.