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  A Thorn in the Bush

  Herbert, Frank

  Everything of beauty must have at least one flaw in it. Otherwise people do not realize how beautiful it truly is.Mrs. Ross is an expatriate American who has found a quiet life in the small Mexican village of San Juan, a place where she can be content, a place where no one knows the secrets of her shadowy past life. Until an ambitious American painter takes up residence in San Juan, attempting to depict—and expose—everything about the sleepy Mexican town. But he may have underestimated the lengths a seemingly harmless old woman will go to protect her secrets.A Thorn in the Bush is one of four previously unpublished short novels written by famed Dune author Frank Herbert. Early in his career Herbert moved his family to Mexico where he struggled to survive as a writer. This novel came from those life-changing experiences.

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  A Dűne Istencsászára

  Herbert, Frank

  A Dűne sivatagjai, a hatalmas homokférgek és a vad fremenek már csupán legendák – az Arrakis zöldellő világ, a hatalmas Impérium élettel teli központja. Paul Muad-Dib fia, II. Leto, a homoksügérekkel szimbiózisba lépett, jövőbe látó Istencsászár immár három és félezer éve uralkodik az emberiségen. Leto Békéje soha nem ismert stabilitást hozott, megszüntetve a nyomort és a háborúkat. Ám ennek a békének ára van.

  Leto vasmarokkal igazgatja birodalmát. Hogy elérje célját, és végigvezesse az emberiséget az Arany Ösvényen, zsarnoki elnyomást teremt. Félelmetes amazonokból álló serege a világegyetem minden zugába elviszi a megtestesült Isten parancsait, fűszer fölötti monopóliuma pedig engedelmességre kényszeríti a csillagközi utazást biztosító Űrligát, a Bene Gesserit rendet, a fejlett gépekkel kísérletező ixieket és az emberi testet megcsúfoló tleilaxiakat. Több évezrednyi uralom után azonban egyre közeledik a nap, amikor talán valaki sikeresen ledönti a zsarnok Atreidest a trónjáról. De ki lehet játszani magát a mindent látó Istent?

  A klasszikus Dűne-sorozat negyedik kötetében Frank Herbert egy megváltozott univerzumba vezeti be olvasóit, ám a regényében feldolgozott témák ugyanazok, mint korábban: mi az uralom lényege, hogyan működik a vallás, és miként válik átokká a jövőbe látás áldása. A Dűne Istencsászára a zsarnoki II. Leto története, aki egyszerre elnyomó és áldozat, hosszú uralma alatt pedig bepillantást nyújt az emberiséget mozgató legalapvetőbb törvényszerűségekbe.

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  High-Opp

  Herbert, Frank

  A never-before-published novel by Frank Herbert, author of the international bestseller DUNE. EMASI—Each Man A Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps, the Separatists engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society driven entirely by opinion polls. Those who score high in the polls, the High-Opps, live in plush apartments, with comfortable jobs, every possible convenience. But those who happen to be low-opped, find themselves crowded in Warrens, with harsh lives and brutal conditions. Daniel Movius, Ex-Senior Liaitor, rides high in the opinion polls until he becomes a casualty, 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 super-privileged. And every revolution needs a leader.

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  Four Unpublished Novels

  Herbert, Frank

  Frank Herbert will forever be known as the “author of Dune,” the science fiction masterpiece that made his career and made his name. But he was an exceptionally diverse author who wrote in numerous genres. Even at the beginning of his writing career, Frank Herbert wrote whatever inspired him, irrespective of genre, market, or audience tastes.After the success of his first novel The Dragon in the Sea (1955), Herbert wrote numerous novels and short stories that failed to find a market. He persevered until finally, seven years later, he wrote the most unpublishable novel of all, Dune—which, once it finally found a home with an obscure publisher, finally made Frank Herbert a household name synonymous with science fiction.This volume collects four of those complete, never-before-published novels written before Dune: High-Opp, a dystopian science fiction novel; Angels’ Fall, a jungle survival adventure; A Game of Authors, a Cold War thriller; and A Thorn in the Bush, a mainstream novel based on some of Herbert’s experiences in Mexico.

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  Destination: Void

  Herbert, Frank

  Prequel to Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom’s Pandora Sequence.The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hybernating 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. An emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: to create an artificial consciousness in the Earthling’s primary computer, which could guide them to their destination . . . or could destroy the human race.This is Frank Herbert’s classic novel that begins the epic Pandora Sequence, which also includes The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect, and The Ascension Factor.

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  Frank Herbert

  Herbert, Frank

  Even the author of DUNE—the best-selling science fiction novel of all time—had trouble getting published. At first.Frank Herbert wanted to be a writer, and though today his name is practically synonymous with world-building and epic science fiction, Herbert didn’t start out with a particular genre in mind. He wrote mainstream stories, mysteries, thrillers, mens’ adventure pieces, humorous slice-of-life tales. And, yes, some science fiction.For the first time, this collection presents 13 completed short stories that Frank Herbert never published in his lifetime. These tales show a great breadth of talent and imagination. Readers can now appreciate the writing of one of the field’s masters in a kaleidoscope of new stories.

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