The Godmakers

Product Description [Read by Scott Brick]Another science fiction tale from the world-famous New York Times bestselling author of Dune. -- The Godmakers is an expansion of four short stories written from 1958-1960. It is an exploration of the concepts of war and peace, government and religion. -- On the edge of a war-weary and devastated galaxy, charismatic Lewis Orne has landed on Hamal. His assignment: to detect any signs of latent aggression in this planet's population. To his astonishment, he finds that his own latent extrasensory powers have suddenly blossomed, and he is invited to join the company of ''gods'' on this planet--and the people here place certain expectations on their gods. About the Author Frank Herbert (1920-1986), winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards and a 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.