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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

As with all of our previous Dune novels, we have depended on the efforts of a great ood as possible We would like to thank Pat LoBrutto, Tohey at Hodder & Stoughton; Catherine Sidor, Louis Moesta, and Diane Jones at WordFire, Inc Byron Merritt and Mike Anderson put in a great deal of work on the dunenovelscom Web site Alex Paskie offered in-depth advice on Jewish philosophy and traditions, and Dr Attila Torkos worked very hard on fact-checking and consistency

In addition, we have hadJohn Silbersack, Robert Gottlieb, and Claire Roberts at Trident Media Group; Richard Rubinstein, Mike Messina, John Harrison, and Emily Austin-Bruns at New Amsterdam Entertainment; Penny and Ron Merritt, David Merritt, Julie Herbert, Robert Merritt, Kiaux Herbert, and Theresa Shackelford at Herbert Properties LLC

And as always, these books would not exist without the unending help and support from our wives, Janet Herbert and Rebecca Moesta Anderson, or the original genius of Frank Herbert

AUTHORS' NOTE

We wish Frank Herbert could have been here to write this book

After the publication of Heretics of Dune (1984) and Chapterhouse: Dune (1985), he had rand climax to the epic Dune Chronicles Anyone who has read Chapterhouse knows the excruciating cliffhanger ending

The last novel Frank Herbert wrote, Man of Two Worlds, was a collaboration with Brian, and the two of theether, particularly the story of the Butlerian Jihad However, with the beautiful dedication and coda that Frank wrote at the end of Chapterhouse, a loving tribute to his wife, Beverly, Brian originally thought that the Dune Chronicles should end there As he explained in Drearaphy of Frank Herbert, his parents had been a writing teaone So Brian left the series untouched for many years

In 1997, an to discuss with Kevin J Anderson the possibility of co the fabled Dune 7 But apparently Frank Herbert had left no notes, and we thought ould have to do the project based solely on our own ireat deal of preliminary work needed to be coroundwork for the story itself, but also reintroducing the book-buying audience and a whole new generation of readers to the incredible, highly iinative Dune universe

More than twenty years have passed since the publication of Chapterhouse: Dune While inal classic Dune or even the first three books in the series, a significant portion of the audience had not continued all the way through to that last book We needed to reawaken interest and get those readers prepared

We decided to write a trilogy of prequels first--the Prelude series of House Atreides, House Harkonnen, and House Corrino When we began to dig through all of Frank Herbert's stored papers in preparation for writing House Atreides, Brian was surprised to learn of two safe-deposit boxes that his father had taken out before his death Inside the boxes, Brian and an estate attorney discovered a dot-matrix printout and two old-style coes describing exactly where the creator of Dune had intended to take his story

Reading this nificent culether the history and the characters we all knew in an exciting plot with e we also discovered additional notes and papers describing characters and their histories, pages of unused epigraphs, and outlines for other works

Now that we had a road y, which followed the stories of Duke Leto and Lady Jessica, the evil Baron Harkonnen, and the planetologist Pardot Kynes After that trilogy, rote the Legends of Dune--The Butlerian Jihad, The Machine Crusade, and The Battle of Corrin--which introduced the seminal conflicts and events that form the foundations of the whole Dune universe

Indisputably, Frank Herbert was a genius Dune is the best-selling and inning of our monumental task, we realized that it would not only be impossible, but also foolish, to atte style Both of us were strongly influenced by his writing, and some fans have remarked on certain similarities in style However, we consciously chose to write these books to capture the feel and scope of Dune, using aspects of Frank Herbert's style, but with our own pacing and syntax

We are pleased to report that since the publication of House Atreides, the sales of Frank Herbert's original Dune Chronicles have gone up dra William Hurt and Susan Sarandon--Frank Herbert's Dune and Frank Herbert's Children of Dune--have been broadcast to large audiences and wide acclai Emm

y Awards) They are two of the three most-watched shows in the history of the Sci-Fi Channel

At last, after ht for Dune 7 Upon poring over Frank Herbert's outline and notes, we realized that the breadth and scope of the story would have resulted in a novel ofpresented in two volu Sandworms of Dune

Much more of the epic remains to be written, and we intend to create additional exciting novels, telling other parts of the grand, brilliant tale that Frank Herbert laid out The saga of Dune is far from over!

--Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson, April 2006

Following the 3,500-year reign of the Tyrant Leto II, an e the Fa, the remnants of the human race cast themselves far into the wilderness of space They fled to unknown realht riches and safety, to no avail For fifteen hundred years these survivors and their descendants endured terrible hardships, a whole reorganization of humanity

Stripped of its energy and resources, the ancient governroups took root and grew strong, but never again would humans allow themselves to depend upon a le points of failure

So was Leto II's Golden Path, a crucible in which to strengthen the huet But how could one ly inflict such suffering upon his children? Now that descendants of the Lost Ones are returning froine the true horrors our brothers and sisters faced out there

--Guild Bank Records, Gammu Branch

Even theAs a historian, I ae that has been lost forever, the accurate records of triuedies Entire civilizations rose and fell while out there those who remained in the Old Empire sat in complacency

Neeapons and technologies were spawned by the hardships of the Famine Tiions, distortions, and social processes did the Tyrant set in norance will come back to haunt us

--SISTER TAMALANE, Chapterhouse Archives

Our own estranged brothers, those Lost Tleilaxu who vanished in the tur, have coed in funda an i that they designed these shape-shifters themselves My analysis of the Lost Tleilaxu, however, indicates that they are clearly inferior to us They cannot even create spice from axlotl tanks, but they claim to have developed superior Face Dancers? How can that be?

And the Honored Matres They make overtures of alliance, yet their actions show only brutality and the enslavement of conquered peoples They have destroyed Rakis! How can we have faith in them, or in the Lost Tleilaxu?

--MASTER SCYTALE,

sealed notes found in burned lab on Tleilax

Duncan Idaho and Sheeana have stolen our no-ship and flown off to points unknown They took with thehola of our Bashar Miles Teg With our newly forged alliance, I am tempted to command all Bene Gesserits and Honored Matres to turn their attention to recapturing this ship and its valuable passengers

But I will not Who can find a no-ship out in the vast universe? More ierous Ene for us

--Ee from