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Sisterhood of Dune Paperback – December 31, 2012

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December 31, 2012
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7.01 x 1.26 x 4.88 inches
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1847394299
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978-1847394293
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Export edition (December 31, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1847394299
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1847394293
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.01 x 1.26 x 4.88 inches

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Kevin J. Anderson
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Yes, I have a lot of books, and if this is your first visit to my amazon author page, it can be a little overwhelming. If you are new to my work, let me recommend a few titles as good places to start. My major new fantasy trilogy starts with SPINE OF THE DRAGON, followed by VENGEWAR and GODS AND DRAGONS (editing now). My newest Dune novel with Brian Herbert is THE DUKE OF CALADAN. I also love my Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. series, humorous horror/mysteries, which begin with DEATH WARMED OVER. My steampunk fantasy adventures, CLOCKWORK ANGELS and CLOCKWORK LIVES, written with Neil Peart, legendary drummer from Rush, are two of my very favorite novels ever. And my magnum opus, the science fiction epic The Saga of Seven Suns, begins with HIDDEN EMPIRE. After you've tried those, I hope you'll check out some of my other series.
I have written more than 165 books, including 56 national or international bestsellers. I have over 23 million books in print worldwide in thirty languages. I've been nominated for the Nebula Award, Hugo Award, Bram Stoker Award, Shamus Award, and Silver Falchion Award, and I've won the SFX Readers' Choice Award, Golden Duck Award, Scribe Award, and New York Times Notable Book; in 2012 at San Diego Comic Con I received the Faust Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement.
I have written numerous bestselling and critically acclaimed novels in the Dune universe with Brian Herbert, as well as Star Wars and X-Files novels. In my original work, I am best known for my Saga of Seven Suns series, the Terra Incognita trilogy, the Dan Shamble, Zombie PI series, and Clockwork Angels and Clockwork Lives with Neil Peart. Along with my wife Rebecca Moesta, I am also the publisher of WordFire Press. Find out more about me at wordfire.com, where you can sign up for my newsletter and get some free fiction.
FOR RIGHTS INQUIRIES (Film/TV/Gaming/Foreign/Literary) please contact me directly at info (at) wordfire (dot) com, and I will put you in touch with my appropriate representative.
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Brian Herbert is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers. He has won several literary honors including the New York Times Notable Book Award, and has been nominated for the highest awards in science fiction. In 2003, he published DREAMER OF DUNE, a moving biography of his father Frank Herbert that was a Hugo Award finalist. His acclaimed novels include SIDNEY'S COMET; SUDANNA, SUDANNA; THE RACE FOR GOD; TIMEWEB; THE STOLEN GOSPELS; and MAN OF TWO WORLDS (written with Frank Herbert), in addition to the HELLHOLE Trilogy and DUNE-series novels co-authored with Kevin J. Anderson. Brian published OCEAN, an epic fantasy novel about environmental issues (co-authored with his wife, Jan). Brian's highly original SF novel, THE LITTLE GREEN BOOK OF CHAIRMAN RAHMA released in 2014. See his website: brianherbertnovels.com for book touring information.
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY NOVELS
Ocean (with Jan Herbert)
The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma
Sidney's Comet
The Garbage Chronicles
Sudanna, Sudanna
Man of Two Worlds (with Frank Herbert)
Prisoners of Arionn
The Race For God
Memorymakers (with Marie Landis)
Blood on the Sun (with Marie Landis)
Stormworld (novella, with Bruce Taylor)
THE TIMEWEB SERIES
Timeweb
The Web and the Stars
Webdancers
THE STOLEN GOSPELS SERIES
The Stolen Gospels
The Lost Apostles
THE DUNE SERIES (with 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
The Road To Dune
Hunters of Dune
Sandworms of Dune
Paul of Dune
The Winds of Dune
Sisterhood of Dune
Mentats of Dune
Navigators of Dune (forthcoming)
THE HELLHOLE SERIES (with Kevin J. Anderson)
Hellhole
Hellhole Awakening
Hellhole Inferno
NON-FICTION BOOKS
Dreamer of Dune (biography of Frank Herbert)
The Forgotten Heroes (story of the U.S. Merchant Marine)
HUMOR BOOKS
Classic Comebacks
Incredible Insurance Claims
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Eric M.Top Contributor: Fantasy Books

Sisterhood of Dune: Another OK prequel to the original Dune series...

Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2016

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Sisterhood of Dune takes off shortly after where the Legends of Dune series ended--the aftermath of the war against the Thinking Machines and the establishment of the Corrino Dynasty. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, using notes from the late master author Frank Herbert, tell the tale of the Butlerian Jihad and the rise of the major institutions that shaped the human-occupied galaxy such as the Bene Gesserit school, the Suk school, the school of Mentats and the organization that became the Spacing Guild. There is also a continuation of the stories of both the Atreides (embodied by long-lived Vorian) and the miserable Harkonnens, still stinging from the aftermath of the Battle of Corrin. It is interesting to witness--as a reader--the formation of the shaping forces which ultimately play roles in the larger Dune mythology. Sadly, the problems that plague the first set of prequels does not abate here...some of the storytelling itself is wooden, in places abrupt, and populated by characters that are just not as robust as how Frank Herbert might have developed them to be. For loyal fans of Dune who crave more of the backstories that support the original series.

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The Bene Gesserit's origins that pick up after the events of the Legends of Dune trilogy.

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2020

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Author's Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring us back to the Dune universe with Sisterhood of Dune taking place 83 years after the fall of the machine empire and the rise of the human imperium. As the story opens we find out that Vorian Atrreides has settled down on a planet on the far fringes of the imperium with a new wife and children whom he has been able to raise unlike those from his first wife during the years of the Jihad. As this is going on Reverend Mother Raquella has been trying to get those of her order to ascend has she has into other Reverend Mothers. While on a distant planet the Menta school run by the only human to have lived with the thinking machines and not be used for experiments Gilbertus is forced into a bind thanks to that planet being the home for the Butlarian movement. He has the brain of one of the thinking machines of which he hides but he takes risks with it in trying to build a new body for it at his cabin. The butlarian leader Manford has his heart and mind set on ridding the empire of the last of the thinking machines while he reads from the books written by the one that Gilbertus has hidden. Events are set into motion and the Vanhold spacing fleet and their navigators can see the future and know that the coming conflict with the two ideas of civilization will turn the empire in on itself. And thanks to the Butlarian teachings Reverend Mother Raquella's graddaughter has found out that the planet that was home to the Bene Gesserit sisterhood has computer with breeding records. There is so much that took place in this book and even we know the outcome down the line I am still looking forward to reading the next book in the schools of Dune trilogy and I highly recommend it to all science fiction fans.

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An enjoyable read, but not Dune level.

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2016

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As an avid Dune fan, I am grateful for the story of the Sisterhood, but there are plot holes here and there. I would not prefer to have not read the book, but it feels a little rushed to me, like they are working a little too hard to get another Dune story out without the quite the depth and attention to detail that we have come to expect from Dune.

What I did like about it is the depiction of a struggle in the evolution of what would become the Sisterhood. A lot of people have a tendency to accept the fact of the sisterhood as fait accompli, but it provides realism that would exist in the struggle to build and great organization, and sometimes I was in suspense as to the fate in that evolution.

All in all, not a bad book, but not, in my opinion, Dune level.

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Nikolas P. Robinson

It's Dune. I Can't Help But Keep Reading These Books.

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2015

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Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson lives up to the expectations set by reading nine of the other novels they've contributed to Frank Herbert's Dune legacy.
Plenty of people are happy to dismiss these supplemental prequels, sequels, and gap-filler novels...but I'm not one of them. I won't deny it's an easy perspective to adopt, considering that neither Brian nor Kevin have the literary prowess Frank Herbert displayed...and the vision isn't quite there either, but expecting them to somehow match Herbert's writing would be absurd anyhow. There are plenty of people out there, like me, who feel the aching need to keep diving further into the universe that Dune created, otherwise there wouldn't have been bestsellers in what they've released...so I have plenty of company in still loving these books even with the faults and shortcomings.
This novel goes a step further than the trilogy that preceded it in delving into the development of the powerful organizations that later come to majorly influence the universe in which Dune takes place. In addition to providing intimate glimpses into the early stages of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, a good deal of the story focuses on the Suk medical practitioners, the Mentat schooling, the transportation company that later becomes the Spacing Guild, as well as a little bit more detail of the Swordmaster training program.
The overall theme of the narrative is dedicated to a conflict between unreasoning superstition and rational thought...which seems a bit on the nose as far as the political climate in America is concerned, but it wasn't handled so poorly as to be irritating.
I'm terribly biased where all things Dune are concerned...so I enjoyed the book. My judgment is questionable though, but that's probably always true.
It ends with an open-ended quality that makes it clearly pave the way for Mentats of Dune, which I haven't picked up yet, but plan to...and I must admit it would be nice to see how the Butlerian anti-technology fanatics get reigned in sufficiently that the technologically advanced planets of IX and Richese are able to flourish and become what they are by the time Dune and the immediately preceding trilogy come along. So, here's for hoping that these two authors follow up and add yet another volume to the expanding literary universe of Dune. I know that I'll read it.

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Yoram Laviv

Avoid Simon & Schuster edition!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 28, 2022

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ISBN-10: 1849830282
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I wouldn't go into reviewing the literary merit of this book as it has none.
However, if you do like what those couple of "writers" scribble then at least avoid this edition of Simon & Schuster by all means. The paper quality is what you use for your home printer (unfortunately, this has become a cheap 'standard' nowadays) thus the leaves feel alien and would easily exhibit bending marks. The choice of fonts is on the thin and very small size which would make a tiresome reading.
Value for money: I paid 16.99 English Pounds ($22.75) which is 15.99 more than its real value.

Lee Andrews

An Engrossing Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 14, 2021

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A great book with a slightly misleading title. It is not so much about the sisterhood as it is about the different competing factions in the Dune universe. An engrossing read non the less and I can't wait to read the sequels.

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Peter Jones

I enjoyed all previous Dune prequel novels by these two great ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2018

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I enjoyed all previous Dune prequel novels by these two great authors, this book is no different. It's a joy to read and keeps you turning the page.
Looking forward to the 2nd and 3rd books in this trilogy.

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Gryphon

The Dune Saga legacy continues....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 9, 2016

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This keeps the Dune Saga alive and fills in some of the gaps. Written in the true spirit of his father and making use of his legacy. Still to be reading this saga more than 40 years after I first found 'Dune' is an achievement and introduced my the Science Fiction as a teenager. If you have yet to the read the original books then do so. You won't be sorry.

Buck536

The scale of the Dune saga never ceases to amaze.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 13, 2022

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Amazing!
More great reading ahead as this universe continues to expand and create more depth to the history of itself.

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