VOLUME 3 OF THE JEDI ACADEMY TRILOGY

STAR WARS

As the New Rebellion continues its struggle for survival, a scattered but powerful remnant of the shattered Empire seeks to destroy three precious children - among them Han and Leia's Jedi twins - who represent the next generation of Jedi Knights, in this third and final novel of the Jedi Academy Trilogy...

CHAMPIONS OF THE FORCE

Suspended helplessly between life and death, Luke Skywalker lies in state at the Jedi academy.  But on the spirit plane, Luke fights desperately for survival, reaching out psychically to the Jedi twins.  At the same time, Leia is on a life-and-death mission of her own, a race against Imperial agents hoping to destroy a third Jedi child - Leia and Han's baby Anakin - hidden on the planet Anoth.  Meanwhile, Luke's former protegé Kyp Durron has pirated the deadly Sun Crusher on an apocalyptic mission of mass destruction, convinced he is fighting for a just cause.  Hunting down the rogue warrior, Han must persuade Kyp to renounce his dark crusade and regain his lost honor.  To do it, Kyp must take the Sun Crusher on a suicide mission against the awesome Death Star prototype - a battle Han knows they may be unable to win... even with Luke Skywalker at their side!

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I can’t stop thinking big....

International best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson teams up with Rush lyricist and drummer Neil Peart to expand the story set out in Clockwork Angels, the 20th studio album by the legendary rock band.

All the journeys of this great adventure -

It didn’t always feel that way

For more than two centuries, the land of Albion has been ruled by the supposedly benevolent Watchmaker, who imposes precision on every aspect of life. Young Owen Hardy from the village of Barrel Arbor dreams of seeing the big city and the breathtaking Clockwork Angels that dispense wisdom to the people, maybe even catching a glimpse of the Watchmaker himself.

I was brought up to believe....

He watches the steamliners drift by, powered by alchemical energy, as they head toward Crown City - never dreaming that he is already caught between the grandiose forces of order and chaos, between the Watchmaker and his nemesis, the Anarchist. Owen’s journeys begin at a fabulous carnival with clockwork wonders beyond his imagination, and take him aboard airships, far into the Redrock Desert to seek lost cities, through storms at sea to encounters with pirates...and give him a chance at love.

Clockwork Angels: The Novel is a remarkable, innovative story unlike any other.

The basis for this novel, Clockwork Angels: The Album by Rush, is available now at rush.com.

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Some lives can be summed up in a sentence or two. Other lives are epics. In Clockwork Angels, number-one best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart created a fabulous, adventurous steampunk world in a novel to accompany the smash Rush concept album of the same name.

It was a world of airships and alchemy; clockwork carnivals; pirates; lost cities; a rigid Watchmaker who controlled every aspect of life; and his nemesis, the ruthless and violent Anarchist, who wanted to destroy it all. Anderson and Peart have returned to their colourful creation to explore the places and the characters that still have a hold on their imaginations.

Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village; she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions to take care of her ailing father, an alchemist and an inventor. When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious inheritance: a blank book that she must fill with other people's stories - and ultimately her own.

Clockwork Lives is a steampunk Canterbury Tales and much more, as Marinda strives to change her life from a mere "sentence or two" to a true epic.

VOLUME 2 OF THE JEDI ACADEMY TRILOGY

STAR WARS

DARK APPRENTICE

As the New Republic takes devastating losses in the ongoing war with the scattered remnants of the Empire, the galaxy's future depends on three small children - among them the Jedi Twins - born to incredible powers and perils, as an extraordinary new Star Wars® saga unfolds...

While the New Republic struggles to decided what to do with the deadly Sun Crusher - a new doomsday weapon stolen from the Empire by Han Solo - the renegade Imperial Admiral Daala uses her fleet of Star Destroyers to conduct guerrilla warfare on peaceful planets.  And now she threatens the watery world of Admiral Ackbar.  But as the battle for a planet rages, and even greater danger emerges at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy.  A brilliant student deleves dangerously into the dark side of the Force and unleashes the spirit of an ancient master of the evil order that warped Darth Vader himself.  Working together, they may become an enemy greater than any the New Republic has ever fought... more powerful than even a Jedi Master can face.

Acclaimed author of the Jedi Academy trilogy, Kevin J. Anderson is backwith a blockbuster novel, returning to Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine.

DARKSABER

Luke returns home with Han Solo, hoping to make contact with Obi-Wan Kenobi.  Instead, what they find is disturbing news: the Hutts, criminal warlords of the galaxy, arebuilding a secret superweapon, a reconstruction of the original Death Star superlaser, to be called the Darksaber.  This planet-crushing power will be in the ruthless hands of Durga, a creature without conscience or mercy.  And there is trouble on another front: Admiral Daala is very much alive and, in league with Pallaeon, is marshalling forces to destroy the Rebels.  Soon they and Luke will face the ultimate test of their power - one in which all the temptations of the dark side of the Force becon....

PRAISE FOR KEVIN J. ANDERSON'S
JEDI ACADEMY TRILOGY
"Anderson has all but assumed the title of chancellor of Star Wars University." - Starlog

"[FANS] REJOICE IN THIS CHANCE TO RETURN TO ONE OF SCIENCE FICTION'S MOST APPEALING FUTURES."
- The New York Times Book Review

Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide.  By his death in 1986, Herbert had completed six novels in the series, but much of his vision remained unwritten.  Now, working from his father's recently discovered files, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson collaborate on a new novel, the prelude to Dune - where we step onto the planet Arrakis... decades before Dune's hero, Paul Muad'Did Atreides, walks its sands.

Here is the rich and complex world that Frank Herbert created, in the time leading up to the momentous events of Dune.  As Emperor Elrood's son plots a subtle regicide, young Leto Atreides leaves for a years education on the mechanized world of Ix; a planetologist named Pardot Kynes seeks the secrets of Arrakis; and the eight year old slave Duncan Idaho is hunted by his cruel masters in a terrifying game from which he vows escape and vengeance.  But none can envision the fate in store for them: one that will make them renegades - and shapers of history.

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring us the magnificent final chapter in the unforgettable saga of the events leading up to Frank Herbert's immortal Dune...

DUNE
HOUSE CORRINO

In subterranean labs on the planet Ix, cruel Tleilaxu overlords are busy manufacturing a synthetic form of melange known as amal.  If amal can supplant the spice from Dune, Emperor Shaddam IV will gain absolute power.  But if the plot of the Imperial House Corrino succeeds, this madness may result in the end of space travel, the Imperium, and civilization itself.  It is only Duke Leto Atreides, badly overmatched yet desperate to free the Ixians from their oppressors, who stands a chance of averting this cataclysmic tragedy...

RAVES FOR THE RETURN OF DUNE

"[Fans] rejoice in this chance to return to one of science fiction's most appealing futures."
- The New York Times Book Review

"[The authors] have brought this classic saga back to an exciting and dynamic life."
- The Denver Post

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson return to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert's Dune, bringing a vast array of rich and complex characters into conflict to shape the destiny of worlds...

DUNE
HOUSE HARKONNEN

As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House Atreides - and against the mysterious Sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit.  For Let Atreides, grown complacent and comfortable as ruler of his House, it is a time of momentous choice: between friendship and duty, safety and destiny.  But for the survival of House Atreides, there is just one choice - strive for greatness or be crushed.

RAVES FOR THE RETURN OF DUNE

"[Fans] Rejoice in this chance to return to one of science fiction's most appealing futures."
- The New York Times Book Review

"[The authors] have brought this classic saga back to life in an exciting and dynamic life."
- The Denver Post

"Dune addicts will hapily devour Herbert and Anderson's spicy conclusion to their second prequel trilogy." - Publisher's Weekly on Dune: The Battle of Corrin.

It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade.  Following the Death of Serena Butler, Synchronized Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict is finally in sight.

Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play.  Virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets... and once again, the tide of the titanic struggle shifts against the human race.  At last, the war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin.

In the greatest battle in science fiction hostory, human and machine face off one last time....  And on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Muad'Dib in Frank Herbert's classic Dune.

"Sit back and enjoy."
- Booklist on Dune: The Machine Crusade

"This compelling saga of men and women struggling for freedom is required reading for Dune fans." - Library Journal

Frank Herbert's Dune is one of the great creations of imaginative literature, science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings.

Decades after Herbert's original novels, the Dune saga was continued by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert, in collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson.  Working from Frank Herbert's own notes, the acclaimed authors reveal the chapter of the Dune saga most eagerly anticipated by readers: the Butlerian Jihad.

Throughout the Dune novels, Frank Herbert frequently referred to war in which humans wrested their freedom from "thinking machines."  In Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring to life the story of that war, a tale previously seen only in tantalizing hints and clues.  Finally, we see how Serena Butler's passionate grief ignites the struggle that will liberate humans from their machine masters; here is the amazing tale of the Zensunni Wanderers, who escape bondage to flee to the desert world where they will declare themselves the Free Men of Dune.  And here is the backward, nearly forgotten planet Arrakis, where traders have discovered the remarkable properties of the spice melange...

"Sit back and enjoy."
- Booklist on Dune: The Machine Crusade

THE FANTASTIC SAGA OF
FRANK HERBERT'S DUNE CONTINUES
IN DUNE: THE MACHINE CRUSADE...

More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in Dune: The Butlerian Jihad.  The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years; the human worlds have grown weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat.

The feersome cymeks, led by Agamemnon, hatch new plots to regain their lost power from Omnius.  Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva are on the verge of the most important discovery in human history - a way to "fold" space and travel instantaneously to anyplace in the galaxy.

And on the faraway, nearly worthless planet of Arrakis, Selim Wormrider and his band ot outlaws take the first steps toward making themselves the feared fighters who will change the course of mankind: the Fremen.

"The kind of intricate plotting and philosophical musings that would make the elder Herbert proud." - Publishers Weekly on Dune: The Butlerian Jihad

JACEN and JAINA

When the Empire died, they were born - a new hope for a New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now fourteen, and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Together with friends both old and new, the future heroes of an already legendary saga begin their training.

STAR
YOUNG JEDI KNIGHTS
WARS

While exploring the jungle outside the academy, the twins make a startling discovery - the remains of a TIE fighter that had crashed years ago during the battle against the first Death Star. Mechanical whiz Jaina thinks she can repair it... if they can sneak the right parts from the academy.

Meanwhile, their work is being closely watched - but not by academy eyes. The original pilot, an Imperial trooper, has been living wild in the jungle since his ship went down. Waiting to return to duty. And now his chance has come...

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Only the most desperate colonists dare to make a new home on Hellhole. Reeling from a recent asteroid impact, tortured with horrific storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and churning volcanic eruptions, the planet is a dumping ground for undesirables, misfits, and charlatans…but also a haven for dreamers and independent pioneers. Against all odds, an exiled general named Adolphus has turned Hellhole into a place of real opportunity for the desperate colonists who call the planet their home. While the colonists are hard at work developing the planet, General Adolphus secretly builds alliances with the leaders of the other Deep Zone worlds, forming a clandestine coalition against the tyrannical, fossilized government responsible for their exile. What no one knows is this: the planet Hellhole, though damaged and volatile, hides an amazing secret. Deep beneath its surface lies the remnants of an obliterated alien civilization and the buried memories of its unrecorded past that, when unearthed, could tear the galaxy apart.

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After declaring his independence from the corrupt Constellation, rebel General Adolphus knows the crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together the struggling Hellhole colony, the ever-expanding shadow-Xayan settlement, and his connections with the other Deep Zone worlds. Even then, he doubts his desperate measures will be enough. Diadem Michella Duchenet has collected a huge space fleet led by Commodore Escobar Hallholme, son of the hero who originally defeated Adolphus. They expect resistance from the General's rebels, but who could possibly stand up to such a mighty fleet?

Adolphus knows he’s running out of time, but he still has some hope - the shadow-Xayans have banded together to defend their sacred planet with "telemancy". But can they discover new powers to protect all the stored alien lives on the already devastated world?

And when all hope seems lost, the awakened Xayans reveal information hidden even from their own followers - the existence of a bigger threat that makes even the Constellation fleet seem insignificant. Disaster has come for General Adolphus and Hellhole...and this time there is no escape.

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After the events of Hellhole Awakening, the people of Hellhole and the shadow-Xayans scramble to rally against the threat from the still-living rogue Xayans. Back on Sonjeera, the Monarchy is in an uproar after their surprising defeat and the breakaway of the Deep Zone planets. The dowager Queen decides to go to Hellhole on a diplomatic mission, hoping to keep her power. But after touring Hellhole, Queen Michella is shaken, and begins to realize that she can never have the old Monarchy back. Before the Queen can return to Sonjeera, she’s captured by the rogue Xayans and learns the reason for their attack: The orthodox Xayans had developed their minds to the point where they could evolve and, in so doing, trigger another Big Bang, wiping out everything. The rogue Xayans thought they succeeded in stopping the ascension, but the orthodox Xayans on Hellhole are nearly ready. Now, 22 huge asteroids from the outer reaches of the solar system are bearing towards Hellhole, summoned by the rogue sect as a last resort. Can all these lives and the planet itself be saved? Hellhole Inferno is the thrilling conclusion to Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Hellhole trilogy.

At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Monored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood.  To strengthen their forces, the fugitives have used genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune's past - including Paul Muad'Dib, Lady Jessica, Stilgar, Thufir Hawat, and even Dr. Wellington Yueh.  Each of these characters will use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them.

Failure is unthinkable - not only is their survival at stake, but they hold the fate of the entire human race in their hands...

Hunters of Dune is based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in two safe-deposit boxes for a decade.  This volume will finally answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating to two decades.

"Sit back and enjoy."
- Booklist on
Dune: The Machine Crusade

VOLUME 1 OF THE JEDI ACADEMY TRILOGY

STAR WARS

JEDI SEARCH

As the war between the Republic and the scattered remnants of the Empire continues, two children - the Jedi Twins - will come into their powers in a universe on the brink of vast changes and challenges in this time of turmoil and discovery, an extraordinary new Star Wars saga begins....

While Luke Skywalker takes the first step toward setting up an academy to train a new order of Jedi Knights.  Han Solo and Chewbacca are taken prisoner on the planet Kessel and forced to work in the fathomless depths of a spice mine.  But when Han and Chewie break away, they flee desperately to a secret Imperial research laboratory surrounded by a cluster of black holes - and go from one danger to a far greater one...  On Kessel, Luke picks up the trail of his two friends, only to come face-to-face with a weapon so awesome, it can wipe out an entire solar system.  It is a death ship called the Sun Crusher, invented by a reclusive genius and piloted by none other than Han himself.…

JACEN and JAINA

When the Empire died, they were born - a new hope for a New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now fourteen, and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Together with friends both old and new, the future heroes of an already legendary saga begin their training.

STAR
YOUNG JEDI KNIGHTS
WARS

Luke Skywalker has come to a grim conclusion.  With the threat of a new generation of Dark Jedi being trained at the Shadow Academy, he knows the New Republic will need all the fighters it can muster.  At last, it is time for the young Jedi Knights to  build their lightsabers.

But there is more to mastering the ancient weapon than mere swordmanship.  Each student must learn about the mysterious bond between Jedi and lightsaber.  For Jacen and Jaina, success will mean growing stronger in the Force.  But for one of their friends, failure will mean tragedy.

At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune's past - including Paul Muad'Dib and Lady Jessica - to use their special talents to meet the incredible challenges of the journey.

Failure is unthinkable.  Not only is their survival at stake , but they hold the entire fate of the human race in their hands....

Sandworms of Dune is based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in two safe-deposit boxes for a decade.  Hunters of Dune told the first half of the story.  Now Sandworms of Dune brings the tale to its thrilling conclusion - and will finally answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades.

"Sit back and enjoy."
- Booklist on Dune: The Machine Crusade

JACEN and JAINA

When the Empire died, they were born - a new hope for a New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now fourteen, and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Together with friends both old and new, the future heroes of an already legendary saga begin their training.

STAR
YOUNG JEDI KNIGHTS
WARS

The Dark Jedi Brakiss - the student Luke Skywalker expelled from his academy - has learned much since he left. Enough to master the dark side of the Force.  And enough to establish his own school for training Jedi - the Shadow Academy

But now Brakiss has an even greater task.  Not only must he create a sinister legion of Dark Jedi to serve the Empire, he must undertake a challenge not even Darth Vader and the Emperor could meet: Kidnap the heirs of the Skywalker bloodline, and turn them to the dark side of the Force.