The Dune Saga – Fully Chaptered – Frank Herbert Free Audiobook

Written by Frank Herbert
Read by George Guidall, Davina Porter, Simon Vance, Scott Brick, Euan Morton, Katherine Kellgren
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Mixed
Unabridged

This is a sound quality upgrade for some books that are already up here. I have taken down my old torrent of this as these new encodes are considerably higher quality.

The first book (not available from Audible) came from FLAC files. I did some volume levelling and noise reduction plus some sibilance reduction just on Davina Porter’s voice, it was very sharp. I also found George Guidall’s habit of audibly taking a lung-full of air at the start of every chapter annoying enough that I edited them out.

Books 2, 3 & 6 come from the new full-fat USAC 44,100Hz copies from Audible.

All four of the above mentioned were converted to chaptered FDK VBR5 AAC M4B audiobooks.

Books 4 & 5 are True Decrypts at 64kbps 22,050Hz as they have not been upgraded by Audible.

The artwork that comes with the audiobooks was hideous, so I have sourced alternatives.

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1965 – DUNE – Read by George Guidall & Davina Porter

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad’dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family, and would bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.

A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.

1969 – DUNE MESSIAH – Read by Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton & Simon Vance

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?

1976 – CHILDREN OF DUNE – Read by Simon Vance & Scott Brick

The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone.

But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet’s economy.

Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides’s twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions – but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens.

1981 – GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE – Read by Simon Vance, Scott Brick & Katherine Kellgren

More than 3,000 years have passed since the first events recorded in Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad’Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune.

He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species.

But to achieve his final victory, Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall.

1984 – HERETICS OF DUNE – Read by Simon Vance

On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, 10 times 10 centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again.

The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying, and the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilax struggle to direct the future of Dune.

The children of Dune’s children awaken as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love.

1985 – CHAPTERHOUSE DUNE – Read by Simon Vance, Scott Brick, Euan Morton & Katherine Kellgren

The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power, have colonized a green world, and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile.

Chapterhouse Dune is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death: A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever.