Con una barroca y sabia combinación de filosofía, religión, política, historia y ecología, La Casa Atreides, primera parte de «Preludio a Dune , revela cruciales detalles de la genealogía de los principales personajes de la saga «Dune , centrando su trama en la Casa Atreides y en el desértico planeta Dune, que contiene la melange, la especia indispensable para los viajes espaciales y el desarrollo de los poderes psicosensoriales.

En Dune gobiernan los crueles Harkonnen, pero en el palacio imperial de Kaitain el príncipe heredero Shaddam y su pérfido consejero Fenring planean obtener melange sintética y envenenar al emperador Elrood.

Una emocionante novela de aventuras que nos transporta al exótico universo creado por Frank Herbert, ya conocido por sus seguidores, y que introducirá a los nuevos lectores en un incomparable mundo cuyo futuro pende de un delgado hilo.

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Before Paul Atreides became Muad'Dib, the dynamic leader who unified the wild Fremen on the desert planet known as Dune . . . Before the evil Baron Harkonnen overthrew House Atreides and sent Paul and his mother Jessica fleeing into the deadly wasteland of sand . . . Before the secrets of the spice and the sandworms were discovered . . . There was another story . . . The tale of young Leto Atreides learning to become a ruler in the shadow of his great father. The tale of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, ruthless tyrant who becomes a pawn of Bene Gesserit breeding schemes.

The tale of Pardot Kynes, ambitious planetologist dispatched to the sands of Arrakis to understand the origins of the spice melange, the most valuable substance in the known universe. And the tale of Crown Prince Shaddam Corrino, whose lust for power leads him to plot the assassination of his own father and to create a plan that will replace the spice and disrupt the Imperium forever . . . begins the epic worldwide bestselling trilogy that tells of the generation before and sows the seeds for great heroes, vile enemies, and terrible tyrants.