The Butlerian Jihad (Legends of Dune, Book 1)

Mass Market Paperback, 704 pages

English language

Published Sept. 2, 2003 by Tor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-4077-1
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Legends of Dune, Book 1

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Mon année de lecture 2017 commence comme l'année 2016 s'était achevée : avec l'univers Dune et ses préquelles.

Après la trilogie "Prelude to Dune" qui se déroulait quelques dizaines d'années avant le roman original Dune de Franck Herbert, j'attaque désormais la trilogie "Legends of Dune", qui se déroule cette fois des milliers d'années auparavant et relate les événements connus dans le cycle original sous le nom de "jihad butlérien", au cours duquel l'humanité s'est rebellée contre les "machines pensantes" (robots, ordinateurs) qui l'avaient asservie.

Ce premier volume de la trilogie m'a bien plu. C'est un style complètement différent du roman original et du cycle de Dune tel qu'il avait été pensé et écrit par Frank Herbert. Son fils Brian et son compère Kevin J. Anderson nous offrent plutôt un divertissement que je pourrais qualifier d'hollywoodien dans l'univers imaginaire de Dune. C'est certainement très éloigné de ce que nous aurait proposé …

Dune: The Butlerian Jihad: Beneath Contempt

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Jesus only hung on the cross for three days. I have read four hundred and fifty-four PAGES of Dune: The Butlerian Jihad.

And I did it to save your soul.

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When I was ten years old I was quite precocious. I read and loved Asimov's Foundation trilogy, and had a voracious appetite for new books. So I picked up Frank Herbert's Dune without a second thought.

I never saw it coming.

A hundred pages later I was startled to feel tears pouring down my young face; tears of pure frustration. The book was hard, too hard and complex for my ten-year-old mind to cope with. In a fit of fury, I threw the book across the room.

I hated Dune for years. Herbert, too. But my reading speed is way too fast, so by the time I was sixteen or so I couldn't avoid reading some other …

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