Résultats pour "Herbert" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

"Nous allâmes repérer la nouvelle tombe. Nous décidâmes de nous mettre au travail peu après minuit. Ce fut une tâche assez répugnante même si, à cette époque, nous ne ressentions pas encore cette horreur particulière pour les cimetières que nos expériences allaient bientôt provoquer en nous."Jeune médecin, Herbert West a une idée fixe : redonner vie aux morts. Pour ses recherches, il commence par déterrer des corps. Puis, son besoin en cadavres de plus en plus frais va l'entraîner à commettre des actes monstrueux.

Le deuxième tome d'une trilogie préquel qui se situe un an avant Dune, la saga phénomène de la science-fiction. Un an avant Dune... Dame Jessica, concubine du Duc Leto Atréides et mère de Paul, voit ses vieux démons se réveiller. Elle qui a déjà rompu un serment envers le Bene Gesserit se retrouve confrontée à un dilemme cornélien : doit-elle à nouveau trahir la communauté à laquelle elle appartient et qui l'a formée, ou abandonner sa propre famille ?

The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to...

Frank Herbert's bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, the sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the...

More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in The Butlerian Jihad. The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years, but the forces led by Serena Butler and Irbis Ginjo have made only slight gains; the human worlds grow weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat. Get ready for Dune: The Machine Crusade.

The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hibernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship's three organic mental cores—disembodied human brains that control the vessel's functions—go insane. The emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: build an artificial consciousness in the Earthling's primary computer that can guide them to their destination—and hope it doesn't destroy the human race.

Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

On the edge of a war-weary and devastated galaxy, charismatic Lewis Orne has landed on Hamal. His assignment: To detect any signs of latent aggression in this planet's population. To his astonishment, he finds that his own latent extrasensory powers have suddenly blossomed, and he is invited to join the company of "gods" on this planet - and the people here place certain expectations on their gods.

Leto II Atréides, l'Empereur-Dieu de Dune, est désormais un ver de sable à face humaine. À peu près invulnérable et immortel, il a entrevu dans l'avenir l'extinction de l'espèce humaine. Pour la conjurer, il fait respecter son ordre, le Sentier d'Or. L'empire a connu trente-cinq siècles de paix. La Guilde et le Bene Gesserit ont les mains liées : c'est Leto qui contrôle sur Dune les dernières réserves de l'indispensable épice. Les Ixiens lui envoient une femme parfaite, issue d'une éprouvette et chargée à son insu de le séduire et de le détruire.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the greatest discovery in human history revealed not the triumph of civilization, but its terrifying downfall? In *The Time Machine*, H. G. Wells transports listeners beyond the boundaries of the present and into a distant future filled with...

The war against the thinking machines The betrayal that turned House Atreides and House Harkonnen into mortal enemies The discovery of spice—the most valuable substance in the known universe The birth of the Sisterhood, Suk Doctors, Mentats, and Spacing Guild The origins of the Fremen—former...

À une semaine de son mariage, Zoé, jeune médecin, voit tous ses plus beaux rêves se briser. Son fiancé en aime une autre, le mariage est annulé et sa mère lui reproche de n'avoir pas su garder un homme. Pour cicatriser ses blessures, Zoé part dans le désert du Niger. Là-bas, les dunes balayées par le vent, le charme des paysages époustouflants allègeront sa peine. Et surtout, sa rencontre avec John, photographe plein de fougue, lui ouvrira de nouveaux horizons.

What if the entire universe were the creation of alien minds? After an unfortunate spaceship accident, the hedonistic human Lutt Hansen, Jr., finds himself sharing his body and mind with a naïve alien dreamer. Together the two must survive dangers, schemes, and assassination attempts - but can they survive each other?

This book contains the following works: The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, The War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells,The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, Animal Farm by George Orwell, The Call of Cthulhu by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.

The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world—and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. Chapterhouse Dune is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death: A stunning climax to the epic...

Heretics of Dune, the fifth installment in Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi series. On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, ten times ten centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms...

Brought to you by Penguin. NOW THE NO.1 DRAMA IN THE HISTORY OF APPLE TV+ The much anticipated prequel to bestseller Wool that takes us back to the beginnings of the silo. In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is...

Tausende von Jahren in der Zukunft und eine fantastische Welt: Arrakis, der Wüstenplanet. Einzigartig, herrlich – und grausam. Und doch haben es die Menschen geschafft, sich dieser lebensfeindlichen Umwelt anzupassen... Vor fünfzig Jahren erschien Frank Herberts Roman "Der Wüstenplanet" – ein Datum, das den Beginn einer großartigen Erfolgsgeschichte markiert: "Der Wüstenplanet" wurde zum weltweiten Bestseller und 2021/2024 von Denis Villeneuve spektakulär neu verfilmt.

Dune: The Battle of Corrin It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronized Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of struggle...

Paul Atreides, der Retter des Wüstenplaneten, ist verschwunden. In seiner Abwesenheit regiert seine Schwester Alia mit immer grausamerer Hand, bis sich schließlich die anderen Kinder von Paul Atreides gegen sie erheben. Doch der Machtkampf hat ungeahnte Folgen für den Planeten und das ganze Sternenimperium... Frank Herberts Wüstenplanet-Romane, das erfolgreichste Science-Fiction-Epos aller Zeiten, in der neuen Übersetzung von Jakob Schmidt.