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Dune Messiah: Book Two in the Dune Chronicles Audiobook

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Read By: Scott Brick, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren Publisher: Macmillan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Series: The Dune Chronicles Release Date: September 2007 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781427202376

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

22

Longest Chapter Length:

30:52 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

38 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

24:26 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

29

Publisher Description

The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men. But the question is: Do all paths of glory lead to the grave?

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"After Dune, all the royal intrigue in Dune Messiah made me want to wander off into the desert, too. This is one of my least favorite of the Dune series, but even a relatively bad Dune book is awesome and worth reading. If anything, you need this to get to the next two books, which are amazing."

— Ethan (4 out of 5 stars)

Quotes

  • “Unique...I know nothing comparable to it except Lord of the Rings.

    — Arthur C. Clarke on Dune
  • One of the monuments of modern science fiction.

    — Chicago Tribune on Dune
  • Powerful, convincing, and most ingenious.

    — Robert A. Heinlein on Dune
  • A portrayal of an alien society more complete and deeply detailed than any other author in the field has managed...a story absorbing equally for its action and philosophical vistas...An astonishing science fiction phenomenon.

    — The Washington Post on Dune

Dune Messiah Listener Reviews

Overall Performance: 3.8372093023255816 out of 53.8372093023255816 out of 53.8372093023255816 out of 53.8372093023255816 out of 53.8372093023255816 out of 5 (3.84)
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Story: 3.4285714285714284 out of 53.4285714285714284 out of 53.4285714285714284 out of 53.4285714285714284 out of 53.4285714285714284 out of 5 (3.43)
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    " A whole different environment where people struggle over mostly familiar issues. Supreme escapism. "

    — Daveread, 2/18/2014
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    " Wonderful follow up to "Dune". I especially love how Paul begins to realise exactly what his new position means and what he must do. "

    — Kate, 2/13/2014
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    " Overall consensus by most folks is that the first Dune book was fabulous, and the follow-on books got progressively less interesting. I totally agree, but I read them all anyway. Fascinating fictional world! "

    — Judy, 2/8/2014
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    " Only half the length of the original Dune, the second book in the series takes place 12 years after. Not as epic, this is almost like a chamber western, with political intrigue and references to great action, but little action described. The feel of the book is like a prelude to what comes next, that the third book will be the true sequel to Dune. "

    — Lyn, 2/6/2014

About Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert (1920–1986), winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards and a #1 New York Times bestselling author, was born in Tacoma, Washington, and worked as a reporter and later as an editor for a number of West Coast newspapers before becoming a full-time writer. His first science fiction story was published in 1952, but he achieved fame more than ten years later with the publication of “Dune World” and “The Prophet of Dune” in Analog. The stories were amalgamated in the bestselling novel Dune in 1965.

About the Narrators

Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.

Euan Morton is an Earphones Award–winning narrator. As an actor and singer, he is best known for his role as Boy George in the musical Taboo, which earned him a Laurence Olivier Award nomination. He reprised the role on Broadway, earning him the Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut, as well as nominations for the ony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama League awards. His other stage performances include Leaves of Glass, Sondheim on Sondheim, and Cyrano De Bergerac.

Simon Vance (a.k.a. Robert Whitfield) is an award-winning actor and narrator. He has earned more than fifty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration thirteen times. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. He is also an actor who has appeared on both stage and television.

Katherine Kellgren (1969–2018), narrator and actress, appeared onstage in London, New York, and Frankfurt, including in the role of Laura in a regional production of The Glass Menagerie and appearances on Comedy Central. In recognition of her mastery of audiobook narration, she received many honors, including the prestigious Audie Awards, with four for best female narrator; the Odyssey Award; Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award; dozens of AudioFile magazine Earphones Awards; an AudioFile Golden Voice Award; Booklist Voice of Choice award; and acclaim from press and listener reviews.