Sandworms of Dune - Brian Herbert [0]
DUNE
THE DUNE SERIES
BY FRANK HERBERT
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse: Dune
BY FRANK HERBERT, BRIAN HERBERT,
AND KEVIN J. ANDERSON
The Road to Dune (includes the original short novel Spice Planet)
BY BRIAN HERBERT AND KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Atreides
Dune: House Harkonnen
Dune: House Corrino
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
Dune: The Machine Crusade
Dune: The Battle of Corrin
Hunters of Dune
Sandworms of Dune
Paul of Dune (forthcoming)
BY BRIAN HERBERT
Dreamer of Dune
(biography of Frank Herbert)
SANDWORMS OF
DUNE
Brian Herbert
and
Kevin J. Anderson
Based on an outline by Frank Herbert
A TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK
NEW YORK
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously.
SANDWORMS OF DUNE
Copyright © 2007 by Herbert Properties LLC
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Herbert, Brian.
Sandworms of Dune / Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.—1st ed.
p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates Book.”
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1293-8
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1293-X
1. Dune (Imaginary place)—Fiction. 2. Life on other planets—Fiction. 3. Robots—Fiction. I. Anderson, Kevin J., 1962– II. Title.
PS3558.E617S26 2007
813'.54—dc22
2006102742
First Edition: August 2007
Printed in the United States of America
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We can never overstate the appreciation we owe to the genius
who created this incredible series. Once again, this book is for
Frank Herbert, a man of wondrous and important ideas, who has
been our mentor as we continue to write new stories in his
fantastic Dune universe. Sandworms of Dune is the chronological
grand finale that he envisioned, and we are pleased to finally
bring it to his millions of loyal fans.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
As with all of our previous Dune novels, we have depended on the efforts of a great many people to make the manuscript as good as possible. We would like to thank Pat LoBrutto, Tom Doherty, and Paul Stevens at Tor Books; Carolyn Caughey at Hodder & Stoughton; Catherine Sidor, Louis Moesta, and Diane Jones at WordFire, Inc; Penny Merritt, Kim Herbert, and Byron Merritt at Herbert Properties LLC; and Mike Anderson at the dunenovels.com Web site, as well as Dr. Attila Torkos, who worked on fact-checking and consistency.
In addition, we have had many supporters of the new Dune novels, including John Silbersack, Robert Gottlieb, and Claire Roberts at Trident Media Group; Richard Rubinstein, Mike Messina, John Harrison, and Emily Austin-Bruns at New Amsterdam Entertainment; Ron Merritt, David Merritt, Julie Herbert, Robert Merritt, Margaux Herbert, and Theresa Shackelford at Herbert Properties LLC.
And as always, these books would not exist without the unending help and support from our wives, Janet Herbert and Rebecca Moesta Anderson.
Soon after the Honored Matres careened into the Old Empire, the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood learned to hate and fear them. The intruders used their terrible Obliterator weapons to destroy Bene Gesserit and Tleilaxu planets, Richese with its vast industries and weapon shops, even Rakis itself.
But in order to survive the even greater Enemy that pursued them, the Honored Matres desperately needed knowledge that only the Sisterhood possessed. To obtain it, they struck like angry vipers, lashing out with extreme violence.
After the Battle of Junction, the two opposing groups were forcibly united into a New Sisterhood, but the factions continued to wrestle for control and dominance. Such a waste of time, talent, and blood! The real threat came from outside, but we continued to