Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
The 2002 novel that opens the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy.
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad is a 2002 science fiction novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. It is the first book of the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy, which takes place more than ten thousand years before the events of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune and chronicles the Butlerian Jihad, the crusade of the last free humans against the thinking machines.
Quick Facts
- Authors
- Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson
- Read by
- Scott Brick
- Cover artist
- Stephen Youll
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Series
- Legends of Dune
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Published
- 2002
Facts from the source article.
Background
The Jihad is the event behind the Dune universe's prohibition of thinking machines, which in turn produced the Mentats. The trilogy continues with Dune: The Machine Crusade (2003), and the Legends series also tells the origins of the Swordmasters of Ginaz and of the Tlulaxa, ancestors of the Tleilaxu.
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