Mentats of Dune Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00IOSR5FS | Format: PDF
Mentats of Dune Description
In Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Mentats of Dune, the thinking machines have been defeated but the struggle for humanity?s future continues. Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics, led by the madman Manford Torondo and his Swordmaster Anari Idaho.
Mother Superior Raquella attempts to rebuild her Sisterhood School on Wallach IX, with her most talented and ambitious student, Valya Harkonnen, who also has another goal - to exact revenge on Vorian Atreides, the legendary hero of the Jihad, whom she blames for her family?s downfall.
Meanwhile, Josef Venport conducts his own war against the Butlerians. VenHold Spacing Fleet controls nearly all commerce thanks to the superior mutated Navigators that Venport has created, and he places a ruthless embargo on any planet that accepts Manford Torondo?s anti-technology pledge, hoping to starve them into submission. But fanatics rarely surrender easily . . . The Mentats, the Navigators, and the Sisterhood all strive to improve the human race, but each group knows that as Butlerian fanaticism grows stronger, the battle will be to choose the path of humanity?s future - whether to embrace civilization, or to plunge into an endless dark age.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 22 hours and 15 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: March 11, 2014
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00IOSR5FS
I've read all the books in the Dune series, including all of Frank Herbert's originals and the prequels and sequels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Some of the prequel/sequel series are better than others. I would rank them as follows, going chronologically within the series' timeline:
* Legends of Dune prequel trilogy: 4/5
* Great Schools prequel trilogy (of which this book is the second): 5/5
* Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy: 3/5
* Frank Herbert's Dune (original): 6/5 (truly a work of genius)
* Heroes of Dune interquel trilogy: 4/5
* Frank Herbert's Dune 2-4 sequels: 5/5
* Frank Herbert's Dune 5-6 sequels: 4/5
* Brian Herbert/Keven J. Anderson's 7-8 sequels: 3/5
You don't have to read all the previous Dune books to enjoy Mentats of Dune, but I would recommend (at the minimum) reading the original "Dune" book and the Legends of Dune trilogy. You'll also want to read the first book in the Great Schools trilogy, "Sisterhood of Dune", of which this is a direct continuation.
What I like about this book, and this trilogy, is the implication that the Butlerian Jihadis went too far in their quest to rid the universe of computers. Unlike the Legends of Dune trilogy, this book features many of the important institutions that feature in the original "Dune", including the forerunners to the the Spacing Guild, CHOAM and the Bene Gesserit. It doesn't feature much from the Tlelaxu, and the Ixians are not mentioned at all. And while the Great Schools trilogy does feature the Atreides, Harkonnens and Corrinos, it's far enough removed from the original "Dune" to offer an entirely different cast of characters (unlike the Prelude to Dune trilogy).
If you're a fan of the Dune series, or sci-fi in general, I highly recommend this book. Even if you strongly prefer Frank Herbert's original books, I think you should give this trilogy a try.
By Steven J. Lovelace
Your Master has planted thumpers and summoned all you Worms to slither forth
and defend His Latest Masterpiece. Where are you? The Outcasts await with
drooling mouths agape to feast again on your eloquent shills!
We have many questions for you to avoid answering, counter-arguments to
spin your tiny, pointed heads ... alas, then ... have We Won?
Do you yield?
DO YOU YIELD?
By SandRider
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