Dune: The Butlerian Jihad: Book One of the Legends of Dune Trilogy

The war against the thinking machines

The betrayal that turned House Atreides and House Harkonnen into mortal enemies

The discovery of spice--the most valuable substance in the known universe

The birth of the Sisterhood, Suk Doctors, Mentats, and Spacing Guild

The origins of the Fremen--former slaves who find a new home on the desert planet

Ten thousand years before Frank Herbert's masterpiece Dune, humanity is oppressed by powerful machine rulers--the computer overmind Omnius, the maliciously curious robot Erasmus, and their monstrous half-machine collaborators, the cymeks.

But embattled worlds, led by brave Xavier Harkonnen and his firebrand fiancée Serena Butler, fight for the freedom of the human race. They must find new technologies, and the strength of the human spirit, to fight the terrible thinking machines.

Vorian Atreides is born among the machine worlds and trained to be loyal to his cymek father, but he finds all his preconceptions challenged when Serena Butler becomes a prisoner of Erasmus and a victim of his insidious experiments. After a heart-wrenching tragedy, Serena's passionate grief ignites the religious war that will sweep across the Galaxy and liberate humans from their machine masters--no matter the cost. Will Vorian discover that he belongs among humanity, or remain a pawn of the thinking machines?

Here, too, is the amazing tale of the Zensunni Wanderers, who escape bondage to flee to the desert world where they will declare themselves the Free Men of Dune. Experience how they learn to summon and ride the majestic sandworms.

Read the origins of Frank Herbert's Dune.

Author: Brian Herbert,Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.30w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781250388742

About the Author

BRIAN HERBERT, the son of Frank Herbert, wrote the definitive biography of him, Dreamer of Dune, which was a Hugo Award finalist. Herbert is also president of the company managing the legacy of Frank Herbert, and is an executive producer of the motion picture Dune, as well as of the streaming series Dune: Prophecy. He is the author or coauthor of more than forty-five books, including multiple New York Times bestsellers, has been nominated for the Nebula Award, and is always working on several projects at once. He and his wife, Jan, have traveled to all seven continents, and in 2019, they took a trip to Budapest to observe the filming of Dune.

KEVIN J. Anderson has written dozens of national bestsellers and has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers' Choice Award. His critically acclaimed original novels include the ambitious space opera series the Saga of Seven Suns, including The Dark Between the Stars, as well as the epic fantasy trilogy Wake the Dragon and the Terra Incognita fantasy epic with its two accompanying rock CDs. He also set the Guinness-certified world record for the largest single-author book signing, and was recently inducted into the Colorado Authors' Hall of Fame.