Kevin J. Anderson
Author
Series
Frankenstein series volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
63) Mentats of Dune
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2014.
Description
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 antitechnology 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,...
Author
Series
Dune novels. Legends of Dune volume 1
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Description
A Dune prequel portrays the "Butlerian jihad" against technology, a background story vital to the Dune universe.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 32
Description
Continuing the events leading up to Frank Herbert's immortal saga "Dune, " the exciting conclusion to this trilogy finds the cruel Tleilaxu overlords on Ix manufacturing a synthetic form of amal to supplant the spice from Dune. If amal is accepted, Emperor Shaddam IV will gain absolute power. But if the plot of the Imperial House Corrino succeeds, the result may be the end of civilization itself.
68) The road to Dune
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
In this volume, the world's millions of Dune fans can read - at long last - the unpublished chapters and scenes from Dune and Dune Messiah. The Road to Dune also includes some of the original correspondence between Frank Herbert and famed editor John W. Campbell, Jr., along with other correspondence during Herbert's years-long struggle to get his innovative work published, and the article "They Stopped the Moving Sands," Herbert's original inspiration...
Author
Series
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
In a reworking of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel, Detective Carson O'Connor and her partner, Michael Maddison, are confronted by a serial killer in search of victims who possess the humanity missing in himself.
Author
Pub. Date
p2005
Description
Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who's traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O'Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Duncan Idaho follows a beacon to escape the hunt; Baron Harkonnen and the Reverend Mother make an agreement; Padot Kynes helps some Fremen and visits one of their sietches; Leto explores Ix and overhears a dangerous secret." --
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Welcome to the far future on the desert planet Arrakis where Pardot Kynes seeks its secrets. Meanwhile, a violent coup is planned by the son of Emperor Elrood; an eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho seeks to escape his cruel masters; and a young man named Leto Atreides begins a fateful journey. These unlikely souls will come together as renegades and soon discover that fate has decreed they will change the very shape of history."--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"THE OFFICIAL PREQUEL TO THE GROUNDBREAKING DUNE CONTINUES... Leto Atreides brings news of the revolt brewing on Ix, but the city's leaders make a decision that may threaten everyone, while Crown Prince Shaddam plots to overtake it. Meanwhile, Pardot Kynes begins spreading his edenic vision to terraform the desert planet of Dune into an oasis even as the native Fremen raise suspicions about his motives...and if he can truly accomplish his goals."--Amazon.com....
75) Fantastic hope
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A collection of sixteen sci-fi and fantasy stories edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton and debut author William McCaskey. A girl who will go to any lengths to save her newborn brother. A woman who is stuck in a continuous loop, reliving her life after being murdered over and over again by the same man. Martyrs who make the ultimate sacrifice for humanity. In this anthology, sixteen authors have weaved together brand-new...
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