The Dosadi Experiment

Product Description <br/>From Frank Herbert, creator of the Dune series, comes two classic works of science fiction<br/>The Dosadi Experiment<br/>Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, conditioned by constant hunger and war-this is the Dosadi Experiment, and it has succeeded too well. The Dosadi have bred for vengeance and they have learned how to pass through the shimmering God Wall to visit their wrath on the Universe that created them.<br/>The Eyes of Heisenberg<br/>Public Law 10927 is clear and direct. Parents are permitted to watch the genetic alterations of their gametes by skilled surgeons... only no one has ever requested it. But when Lizbeth and Harvey Durant invoke the Law the consequences could be catastrophic.<br/> Review <br/>For Dune<br/>"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 "Powerful, convincing, and most ingenious." ―Robert A. Heinlein <br/>"Herbert's creation of this universe, with its intricate development and analysis of ecology, religion, politics, and philosophy, remains one of the supreme and seminal achievements in science fiction." ―The Louisville Times<br/> About the Author <br/>Frank Herbert created one of the most beloved novels in the annals of science fiction,<br/>Dune. He was a man of many facets, of countless passageways that ran through an intricate mind. His magnum opus is a reflection of this, a classic work that stands as one of the most complex, multi-layered novels ever written in any genre. Today the novel is more popular than ever, with new readers continually discovering it and telling their friends to pick up a copy. It has been translated into dozens of languages and has sold almost 20 million copies.<br/> Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. <br/>Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion.--Gowachin aphorismWhy are you so cold and mechanical in your Human relationships?”Jorj X. McKie was to reflect on that Caleban question later. Had she been trying to alert him to the Dosadi Experiment and to what his investigation of that experiment might do to him? He hadn’t even known about Dosadi at the time and the pressures of the Caleban communications trance, the accusatory tone she took, had precluded other considerations.Still, it rankled. He didn’t like the feeling that he might be a subject of her research into Humans. He’d always thought of that particular Caleban as his friend--if one could consider being friendly with a creature whose visible manifestation in this universe was a fourth-magnitude yellow sun visible from Central Central where the Bureau of Sabotage maintained its headquarters. And there was inevitable discomfort in Caleban communication. You sank into a trembling, jerking trance while they made their words appear in your consciousness.But his uncertainty remained: had she tried to tell him something beyond the plain content of her words?When the weather makers kept the evening rain period short, McKie liked to go outdoors immediately afterward and stroll in the park enclosure which BuSab provided for its employees on Central Central. As a Saboteur Extraordinary, McKie had free run of the enclosure and he liked the fresh smells of the place after a rain.The park covered about thirty hectares, deep in a well of Bureau buildings. It was a scrambling hodgepodge of plantings cut by wide paths which circled and twisted through specimens from every inhabited planet of the known universe. No care had been taken to provide a particular area for any sentient species. If there was any plan to the park it was a maintenance plan with plants requiring similar conditions and care held in their own sectors. Giant Sp