A Canticle for Leibowitz opens 600 years after 20th century civilization has been destroyed by a global nuclear war, known as the "Flame Deluge." As a result of the war, there was a violent backlash against the culture of advanced knowledge and technology that had led to the development of nuclear weapons. During this backlash, called the "Simplification," anyone of learning, and eventually anyone who could even read, was likely to be killed by rampaging...

It is five years after the events of Return of The Jedi. The fragile New Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has not only rallied the remaining Imperial forces but has driven the rebels back with an abominable new technology: clone soldiers. Hopes are dim as Thrawn mounts a final siege against the Republic. While Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a wary alliance of smugglers in a last-ditch attack against the Empire, Leia...

Frank Herbert's Dune chronicles became an enduring classic and one of the most popular science fiction series of all time. Working from notes left by his father, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson deliver a trilogy that is the prequel to Dune, the story of young Leto Atreides, unexpectedly forced to become the Duke of Caladan, as well as his epic romance with the lovely Lady Jessica, his original battles with the evil Baron Harkonnen, along with...

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson return to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert's Dune, bringing a vast array of rich and complex characters into conflict to shape the destiny of worlds. . . .As Shaddam IV sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne after the secret assassination of his father, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House Atreides-and against the mysterious Bene Gesserit Sisterhood.For Leto Atreides, the new Duke...