Public Law 10927 was clear and direct. Parents were permitted to watch the genetic alterations of their gametes by skilled surgeons...only no one ever requested it. When Lizbeth and Harvey Durant decided to invoke the Law, when Dr. Potter did not rearrange the most unusual genetic structure of their future son, barely an embryo growing in the State's special vat—the consequences of these decisions threatened to be catastrophic. For never before had anyone dared defy the Rulers' decrees...and if They found out, it was well known that the price of disobedience was the extermination of the human race.
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“Award-winning Dune narrator Scott Brick perfectly captures this grim look at a world shaped by genetic engineering…Brick skillfully emphasizes Herbert’s favorite themes…Herbert fans will enjoy this audio experience.” — AudioFile
“Award-winning Dune narrator Scott Brick perfectly captures this grim look at a world shaped by genetic engineering…Brick skillfully emphasizes Herbert’s favorite themes…Herbert fans will enjoy this audio experience.”
Award-winning Dune narrator Scott Brick perfectly captures this grim look at a world shaped by genetic engineering.... Brick skillfully emphasizes Herbert's favorite themes.... Herbert fans will enjoy this audio experience.
" Read for Science fiction college class. Did not remember it, so must not have liked it. "
" The technique worked okay in Dune, but I got tired of reading the inner thoughts of multiple characters closely interleaved- and it's confusing early on when the characters aren't yet that distinct. "
" Nicely written, has a lot of detail for the bio-engineering part, it represent its caracters well, and the story has good foundations. But the ending is kind of forced upon the reader and disappointing. "
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.
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.
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