The release date for the English version of 'The Butlerian Jihad' by
Brian Herbert is Mar 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Dune Legends: The Butlerian Jihad It all started during the Age of Tyrants, when ambitious individuals took control of the core of the Old Empire, including Earth, by using powerful computers. The tyrants produced a new species known as cymeks—immortal man-machine hybrids—by translating their minds into moveable mechanical bodies. Then the planetary computers known as Omnius, the world-controlling machines of the cymeks, overthrew their rulers and the thinking machines started a millennium of cruel tyranny.
The human species continues to exist. Some even have dreams of toppling the machines and rescuing their human slaves, such as the idealistic Serena Butler of the free planet Salusa Secundus and her fiancé, the soldier Xavier Harkonnen. Some are proud to serve the machines, such as Vorian Atreides, the bastard son of the cymek Agamemnon. Unfortunately, their planet is doomed. Omnius has come to the conclusion that it no longer needs the cymeks because of their constant planning to reclaim their power and humans' unrelenting disobedience. The human race cannot be saved from extinction unless we win.
The Dune series was carried on decades after Frank Herbert's original books by his son Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Drawing from Frank Herbert's own notes, the celebrated writers unveil the most awaited chapter in the Dune saga: the prequel, Legends of Dune: The Butlerian Jihad.
Frank Herbert often alluded to the conflict in which humanity seized their independence from "thinking machines" in the Dune books. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring the narrative of that conflict to life in Dune: The Butlerian Jihad; it was previously only revealed in tantalizing hints and indications.
The extraordinary story of the Zensunni Wanderers, who break free from bondage and travel to the desert planet where they will name themselves the Free Men of Dune, is finally revealed here. It shows how Serena Butler's intense sorrow fires the fight that will free mankind from their machine overlords. And here is the retrograde, all but forgotten planet Arrakis, where merchants have found the extraordinary qualities of the spice blend.