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Authors | Brian Herbert Kevin J. Anderson |
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Audio read by | Scott Brick |
Cover artist | Stephen Youll |
Language | English |
Series | Prelude to Dune |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Spectra |
Publication date | 2001 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 512 |
ISBN | 0-553-11084-5 |
OCLC | 46565153 |
813/.54 21 | |
LC Class | PS3558.E617 D865 2001 |
Preceded by | Dune: House Harkonnen |
Dune: House Corrino is a 2001 science fiction novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. It is the third book in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy, which takes place before the events of Frank Herbert's celebrated 1965 novel Dune . [1] The Prelude to Dune novels draw from notes left behind by Frank Herbert after his death. [2] [3] [4]
Dune: House Corrino debuted at #8 on The New York Times Best Seller list. [5]
One year after the War of Assassins, Duke Leto Atreides sponsors an assault on Ix to reclaim the planet for House Vernius, while his concubine Jessica is pregnant with his son. Emperor Shaddam IV commences his Great Spice War to create a dependency on his soon-to-be-released synthetic melange, ajidamal . The Bene Gesserit eagerly await the birth of the Kwisatz Haderach's mother by Jessica; little do they know that things are not going to turn out exactly how they intend.
Dune: House Corrino debuted at #8 on The New York Times Best Seller list. [5]
In February 2024, Boom! Studios announced an 8-issue comic adaptation of Dune: House Corrino written by the original authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson to conclude their adaptation of the Prelude to Dune trilogy. [6]
Since its debut in 1965, Frank Herbert's Dune has sold over 12 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling science fiction novel of all time ... Frank Herbert's Dune saga is one of the greatest 20th Century contributions to literature.
The new prequels ... will be based on notes and outlines Frank Herbert left at his death in 1986.
Frank Herbert wrote a detailed outline for Dune 7 and he left extensive Dune 7 notes, as well as stored boxes of his descriptions, epigraphs, chapters, character backgrounds, historical notes—over a thousand pages worth.
I got a call from an estate attorney who asked me what I wanted to do with two safety deposit boxes of my dad's ... in them were the notes to Dune 7—it was a 30-page outline. So I went up in my attic and found another 1,000 pages of working notes.
Brian was cleaning out his garage to make an office space and he found all these boxes that had 'Dune Notes' on the side. And we used a lot of them for our House books.
We had already started work on House Atreides ... After we already had our general outline written and the proposal sent to publishers, then we found the outlines and notes. (This necessitated some changes, of course.)
... we are ready to tackle the next major challenge—writing the grand climax of the saga that Frank Herbert left in his original notes sealed in a safe deposit box ... after we'd already decided what we wanted to write ... They opened up the safe deposit box and found inside the full and complete outline for Dune 7 ... Later, when Brian was cleaning out his garage, in the back he found ... over three thousand pages of Frank Herbert's other notes, background material, and character sketches.
Anderson said that Frank Herbert's notes included a description of the story and a great deal of character background information. 'But having a roadmap of the U.S. and actually driving across the country are two different things,' he said. 'Brian and I had a lot to work with and a lot to expand...'
the co-authors have expanded on Herbert's brief outline