621 pages
English language
Published Nov. 2, 2002 by Tor.
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad is a 2002 science fiction novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. It is the first book in the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy, which takes place over 10,000 years before the events of Frank Herbert's celebrated 1965 novel Dune. The series chronicles the fictional Butlerian Jihad, a crusade by the last free humans in the universe against the thinking machines, a violent and dominating force led by the sentient computer Omnius. Dune: The Butlerian Jihad rose to #7 on The New York Times Best Seller list in its second week of publication.
While the writing is not as good as Frank Herbert's, I did enjoy this return to the Dune universe. This prequel lends a view of the machine war and fills in some history. It does make me miss dear old Frank though. Dune was one of my earliest sci-fi reads.
