The Godmakers, Frank Herbert
The Godmakers, Frank Herbert
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The Godmakers

Author: Frank Herbert

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/31/2014

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

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 planets 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 planetand the people here place certain expectations on their gods. The Godmakers is an expansion of four short stories written from 19581960. It is an exploration of the concepts of war and peace, government and relgion.

About Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's speculative fictions have taken the grand themes and questions of politics, ecology, overpopulation, and much more and applied them to the human drama. His most popular works are the well-known Dune books: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, and the extraordinary bestseller God Emperor of Dune. He wrote more than twenty other works of fiction and nonfiction, including a book on home computers, before his death in 1986.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

If I could totally pick a non-Dune book of Frank Herbert's to point at and say, "Hey, this one is all kinds of cool and fantastic!" It'd be this one. If I needed to point to any of his non-Dune books and say, "OMG this one short novel connects all the main themes of the Dune Chronicles in a rather no......more

Goodreads review by Bryan

This book may be the ultimate secret agent novel. It could also be the most insanely ambitious work of anthropological science fiction. It's also a gold mine for anyone interested in Frank Herbert's work. Let me explain... The Godmakers is a fix-up novel, a cluster of short stories smooshed into the sha......more

Goodreads review by Gilbert

The Godmakers is my favorite Frank Herbert novel. I read it the first time in high school and I’ve read it many times since in print and in audio. On the surface it is a simple adventure story—and a good one at that. Lewis Orne is a well-meaning, extremely bright young man who works for the Rediscov......more

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