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DUNE: THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD—
BRIAN AND KEVIN SELL MAJOR
NEW TRILOGY
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It's the story DUNE fans have been waiting for. On the very day that DUNE: HOUSE HARKONNEN hit the New York Times bestseller list, Brian and Kevin accepted an offer from Tor Books to do a new DUNE trilogy based on the seminal events of the Butlerian Jihad, the epochal conflict between humans and thinking machines set many thousands of years in Dune's past.
Establishing the genesis of Frank Herbert's DUNE universe, THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD Trilogy will detail the saga of the century-long conflict, as well as the original breach that formed the deadly feud between House Atreides and House Harkonnen. The story will include Tio Holtzman's development of foldspace and shield technology, how House Corrino establishes the Imperium, how the Zensunni Wanderers escape slavery and flee to the desert world of Arrakis. Readers will also see the seeds of DUNE's famous Great Schools of the Mentats, the Bene Gesserit, the Suk Doctors, and the Swordmasters.
The contract for three books, with an advance of a solid seven figures per novel, calls for the volumes to be published annually, so DUNE fans will have plenty more to read in years to come. Tentative titles are: Book 1, THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD, Book 2, THE MACHINE CRUSADE, and Book 3, THE BATTLE OF CORRIN. The editor for the project, Pat Lobrutto, is the same editor who originally acquired the "Prelude to Dune" trilogy for Bantam Books.
Brian and Kevin also have Frank Herbert's complete outline for "DUNE 7," a sequel to CHAPTERHOUSE: DUNE, which is intended to be the grand finale for the entire series.
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