Dune The Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert
Dune The Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert
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Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
Book One of the Legends of Dune Trilogy

Author: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson

Series: Dune #1

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 23 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2003


Synopsis

The war against the thinking machines

The betrayal that turned House Atreides and House Harkonnen into mortal enemies

The discovery of spice—the most valuable substance in the known universe

The birth of the Sisterhood, Suk Doctors, Mentats, and Spacing Guild

The origins of the Fremen—former slaves who find a new home on the desert planet

Ten thousand years before Frank Herbert’s masterpiece Dune, humanity is oppressed by powerful machine rulers—the computer overmind Omnius, the maliciously curious robot Erasmus, and their monstrous half-machine collaborators, the cymeks.

But embattled worlds, led by brave Xavier Harkonnen and his firebrand fiancée Serena Butler, fight for the freedom of the human race. They must find new technologies, and the strength of the human spirit, to fight the terrible thinking machines.

Vorian Atreides is born among the machine worlds and trained to be loyal to his cymek father, but he finds all his preconceptions challenged when Serena Butler becomes a prisoner of Erasmus and a victim of his insidious experiments. After a heart-wrenching tragedy, Serena’s passionate grief ignites the religious war that will sweep across the Galaxy and liberate humans from their machine masters—no matter the cost. Will Vorian discover that he belongs among humanity, or remain a pawn of the thinking machines?

Here, too, is the amazing tale of the Zensunni Wanderers, who escape bondage to flee to the desert world where they will declare themselves the Free Men of Dune. Experience how they learn to summon and ride the majestic sandworms.

Listen to the origins of Frank Herbert’s Dune.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

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About Brian Herbert

BRIAN HERBERT, the son of Frank Herbert, wrote the definitive biography of his father, Dreamer of Dune, which was a Hugo Award finalist. Herbert is also president of the company managing the legacy of Frank Herbert, and is an executive producer of the motion picture Dune, as well as of the streaming series Dune: Prophecy. He is the author or coauthor of more than forty-five books, including multiple New York Times bestsellers, has been nominated for the Nebula Award, and is always working on several projects at once. He and his wife, Jan, have traveled to all seven continents, and in 2019, they took a trip to Budapest to observe the filming of Dune.

About Kevin J. Anderson

KEVIN J. Anderson has written dozens of national bestsellers and has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers’ Choice Award. His critically acclaimed original novels include the ambitious space opera series the Saga of Seven Suns, including The Dark Between the Stars, as well as the epic fantasy trilogy Wake the Dragon and the Terra Incognita fantasy epic with its two accompanying rock CDs. He also set the Guinness-certified world record for the largest single-author book signing, and was recently inducted into the Colorado Authors’ Hall of Fame.

About Scott Brick

Scott Brick first began narrating audiobooks in 2000, and after recording almost 400 titles in five years, AudioFile magazine named Brick a Golden Voice and “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy.” He has read a number of titles in Frank Herbert’s bestselling Dune series, and he won the 2003 Science Fiction Audie Award for Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. Brick has narrated for many popular authors, including Michael Pollan, Joseph Finder, Tom Clancy, and Ayn Rand. He has also won over 40 AudioFile Earphones Awards and the AudioFile award for Best Voice in Mystery and Suspense 2011. In 2007, Brick was named Publishers Weekly’s Narrator of the Year. Brick has performed on film, television and radio. He appeared on stage throughout the United States in productions of Cyrano, Hamlet, Macbeth and other plays. In addition to his acting work, Brick choreographs fight sequences, and was a combatant in films including Romeo and Juliet, The Fantasticks and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. He has also been hired by Morgan Freeman to write the screenplay adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Markus on June 02, 2015

Buddy read with Athena! Princess Irulan writes: Any true student must realize that History has no beginning. Regardless of where a story starts, there are always earlier heroes and earlier tragedies. Before one can understand Muad'Dib or the current jihad that followed the overthrow of my father, Emp......more

Goodreads review by ͙͘͡★ Ancuta✨🌙 on February 16, 2025

Nu cred că aș putea exprima în cuvinte cât de fascinantă, de bine gândită și scrisă este această carte, cât de bine construit și redat este universul ficțional și cât de bine conturate au fost personajele. M-am atașat de unele dintre ele atât de mult până în punctul în care orice nedreptate suferită......more

Goodreads review by A.j. on October 05, 2011

Just Remember: It's NOT Dune This book is such a guilty pleasure. Naturally it lacks the depth, sophistication, poetry, philosophy, genius, etc., etc., of DUNE. But still it manages to provide something else quite unexpected: Good old fashioned Space Opera FUN! Just overlook the (mostly) 2-dimensiona......more

Goodreads review by Bianca on March 02, 2025

Am cumparat intreaga serie Dune pe la mijlocul anului trecut, cu gandul sa o parcurg cat mai curand posibil, insa alte carti au luat-o inainte, si a ramas necitita. Serialul Dune: Profetia mi-a redeschis apetitul pentru acest univers, asa ca am decis sa citesc seria de la inceput, in ordinea cronolo......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on February 21, 2016

The only reason this book is so good is because this is the ORIGIN of the whole DUNE universe! Without this story, there would be no DUNE! This is the only prequel novel that needed to be written at all!......more


Quotes

“This is a good, steady, enjoyable tale...Fans who will be sorry to see the end of this series will be heartened by the hint that the Dune saga is far from over.” —Publishers Weekly on Dune: House Corrino

“Rich interweaving of politics and plotting made tbhe Dune novels special. And Dune: House Atreides does its predecessors justice.” —USA Today

“A spirited and entertaining adventure...The real pleasure here comes from watching the authors lay out the plot threads that will converge in Dune.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer on Dune: House Atreides


Awards

  • Audie Award Winner