The Road to Dune by Herbert Frank & Herbert Brian & Anderson Kevin J

Author:Herbert, Frank & Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J. [Herbert, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-fiction
ISBN: 9780765353702
Publisher: Tor
Published: 2006-08-28T10:00:00+00:00

Duneworld is not a dead planet after all, but full of hidden and marvelous life. Humans, however, can change that in short order.

—DR. BRYCE HAYNES,

Ecological Notebooks

From the sun-filtered window in a high tower of the mansion, Jesse looked across the rooftops and crags of Carthage toward the secondary spaceport. His message had been delivered to the Grand Emperor six hours ago, but so far the Imperial yacht remained silent and ominous.

Gurney Halleck had sent confirmation that all stockpile silos, hidden cave caches, spice harvesters, and carryalls had been rigged with conventional explosives and toxic contaminants. Jesse did not doubt the spice foreman would destroy it all if given the command. In a maddeningly cheery voice, Gurney added over the open channel that his inventory calculations had actually underestimated the stores of melange—when fully compiled, all the hidden storehouses actually held an extra four thousand Imperial tons. It was an added twist of the dagger into the Emperor’s side.

Esmar Tuek had used their nuclear engines to create seventeen dirty atomic warheads, which had been dispersed to the richest spice sands, where they could be remotely detonated on a moment’s notice.

Emperor Wuda and his advisors knew that Jesse was not bluffing … .

Dr. Haynes became frantic when he learned about the desperate tactics. The p

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