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The Battle of Corrin (Legends of Dune, Book 3)
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It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronized Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of victory, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight.
Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets . . . and once again, the tide of the titanic struggle shifts against the warriors of the human race. At last, the war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin.
In the greatest battle in science fiction history, human and machine face off one last time. . . . And on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Muad'Dib in Frank Herbert's classic, Dune.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #152528 in Books
- Published on: 2005-08-30
- Released on: 2005-08-30
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 704 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Dune addicts will happily devour Herbert and Anderson's spicy conclusion (after 2003's Dune: The Machine Crusade) to their second prequel trilogy, Legends of Dune. A fearsome robot-engineered plague opens the tumultuous Battle of Corrin, climaxing the century-long galactic war between humans and the computer Omnius's robotic Synchronized Empire. Vorian Atredies, supreme commander of the human Army of the Jihad, initiates the no-holds-barred feud between House Atreides and House Harkonnen by exiling Abulurd Harkonnen for cowardice, while Vorian's granddaughter Raquella molds the Sorceress survivors into a biochemically based sisterhood and Ishmael leads his people into Arrakis's sandwormy desert to become Fremen of Dune. All the Dune themes-religion and politics, fanaticism, ecology, opportunism, totalitarianism, the power of myth-exhaustively prepare the way for Frank Herbert's sweeping classic of corruptibility and survival.
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From AudioFile
Scott Brick brings to life this last of the prequels to Frank Herbert's Dune series. The complications between the thinking machines and the synchronized worlds and unallied planets are coming to a head, building to a great battle. Brick re-creates many of the characters who are familiar from prior books and creates personifications of new additions with dimension and personality. He is an enthusiastic and strong narrator who makes this long and complex book accessible. Brick is particularly adept at drawing out the personality of his characters, especially Omnius and eerily human-like robots. J.E.M. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
From Booklist
What appears to be the end of the Herbert-Anderson Dune prequels opens 56 years after the death of Serena Butler. The Jihad offers hopes of victory over the sentient machines and peace on human terms to a war-scarred galaxy. Unfortunately, the machine leader Omnius conceives a final, desperate, and, coming from a machine intelligence, ironic plan: biological warfare that spreads devastating plagues across scores of human-settled worlds. Herbert and Anderson vividly depict the plagues' effects, although given such a large cast of characters, some readers may feel the emotional impacts of particular characters' fates are rather blunted. The action rises to a thunderous climax in the account of the Battle of Corrin, which occupies a good third of a long book but more than makes up for previous deficiencies in pacing. At the end, we understand why House Corrino sits on the imperial throne, why House Harkonnen is out of favor, why House Atreides is where it is, and why Ishmael has led the ancestors of the Fremen into the desert wastes of the planet known as Arrakis. Thence on, or back, to Frank Herbert's perdurable classic. As before, a job well done. Roland Green
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Customer Reviews
Did we all read the same book? Best of Dune history books
I just finished this book last night, and I feel that it is the best of the Dune history trilogy (Butlerian Jihad, Machine Crusade, Battle of Corrin). All the loose ends in the trilogy are brought together in ways that the long time fan will immediately recognize. We see the origins of the fued between the Atreides and Harkonnen. We see the beginnings of the Bene Gesserit, the CHOAM navigators, the Fremen. I felt that this book was very good and an excellent conclusion to this trilogy and a nice segue into Dune itself. 5 stars.
Miserable
These books were designed to make money. Their creation was clearly rushed, and little thought or care was given to the end product. They sold well due to greatness of Herbert Sr.'s creation. However, without that connection, no publisher would want anything to do with them. They are unimaginative and contradictory. I can't imagine ruining my father's creation just to make a little money.
Whole series is great
This series, the legends of dune is a very good read and story. It did much to develop the characters and their motivations plus backgrounds for the actual Dune series. Really explained much that was missing from the original Dune books. A keeper.
