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Dune: House Harkonnen Brain Patrick Herbert was born in 1947. His father Frank Herbert started the Dune series but passed away and his son and Kevin J. Anderson started working on a prequel trilogy. Brian Herbert worked with his fathers ideas and installed a series of prequel books and has written a biography of his father Frank Herbert. Kevin J. Anderson was born on march 27,1962 and is a renowned science fiction author. He has written many spin-off novels of other series but why I am mentioning him is he is co-author of the Dune prequel trilogy and helped Brian Herbert write them. Kevin J. Anderson was greatly influenced by War Of the World's. Wrote his first novel at the age of 8 and got a typewriter at the age of 10 and has written ever since. He has written many science fiction novels ranging from Starwars to the x files. These two authors colaborated to write Dune prequel books.
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Plot synopsis Shaddam Corrino IV becomes the Pardisah emperor which is basically supreme ruler of the entire known universe. House Harkonnen a noble family that basically opposes the emperor is stocking up on the precious spice melange. This is a problem for the emperor because he has a monopoly on the business and doesn’t want House Harkonnen to get in the way of it. Corrino has a solution and that is to synthesize the rare spice, with help from genetic manipulator Ajidica. Ajidica tells Corrino that he has been able to synthesize it but Corrino isn’t quite sure he’s telling the truth. There is something totally different happening on planet Caladan. Duke Leto Atriedes has a son with his lover Kailea. Kailea wants to get married to Leto but Leto doesn’t want his son to become his heir but tries to work things out. Meanwhile Leto meets a woman given to him by the Gene Besserit program named Jessica, Leto is drawn to Jessica because him and Kailea are drifting farther and farther apart. Kailea grows angrier and plots to kill Leto by putting explosives on his helicopter, but her efforts failed when she ended up killing her son. Kailea commits suicide after Leto begins to think she is responsible. Jessica and Leto fall in love and have a son. On the Harkonnen’s home planet Baron Harkonnen is very sick and his hired a plethora of doctors to diagnose it. Baron’s brother Abulurd finds a plethora of melenge on another plannet and uses it for his peoples good. A peasant on the Harkonnen home world, Gurney Halleck sees the government take away his sister and then gets captured beaten, and tortured after trying to save her later. Gurney escapes to planet Caladan and swears his loyalty to Leto.

What worked I thought this book had an interesting plots and there were multiple plots going on at the same time. The overall story is clever and was truly a joy to read. If you decide to read this book pick up a copy of Dune: House Atreides it will make this book more enjoyable. The book’s interesting theme on the planets dependency on melenge, which is like our dependency on oil now a days, and that the oil company’s have a monopoly over it like portrayed in the book. A interesting quote that relates to human problems “we are always human and carry the whole burden of being human”. (558)

What didn’t work What I didn’t like about this book was there was a lot that I didn’t know because I didn’t read the first book in the series. The book was pretty long too was boring to read at same parts but made my heart beat fast during other sections.

Literary works Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson have written many other books based on the original Dune by Frank Herbert. Such as the dune prequel trilogy in which this is book two. The story is told from a omniscient point of view and I assume the others in the trilogy do as well. The Genre of these books is Science fiction. Some other books you might enjoy http://park204.wikispaces.com/SherlockHolmesWikibyMatt

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