extrasolar planets

Zak Nine, his alien friend Erro, and another prisoner have found a small spacecraft and if they can dodge the missiles that the guards are firing after them perhaps they can finally escape from planet Alcatraz; but there is something wrong with the stars in front of them--they are not really stars at all, and now they find themselves confronted by Alcatraz's biggest secret.

The survivors from the Old Empire, the Bene Gesserit, are fighting the Honored Matres so they can build a new empire out of the ruins of the old one.

Several millenia after the 3500 year rule of the God Emperor Leto II, various forces contend for power, and the freedom of humanity rests on avoiding Leto's grand design.

Takes place 3500 years after the events of the original trilogy. Tells the story of Leto, the son of Paul Atreides, who has traded his humanity to become an immortal sandworm of Dune.

This third volume in the Dune trilogy depicts the evolutionary development of the planet Arrakis.

A few thousand years after humanity perfected its terraforming technology and spread across the stars, creating an empire of planets habitable to them, what once was a great empire has now fallen, and the remnants of humanity and their spider allies are left by themselves on far distant worlds. Then, humanity and their spider allies detect radio fragments from some distant star, and some go in search of the signal's source, hoping to find long-lost cousins from old Earth. What they find is something horrific, something woken by their terraforming technology that should have been left alone.

Describes how scientists are actively studying as many planets as they can, and how many could support life as Earth does, and what other wonderful worlds our technology will find.

Presents a collection of essays selected from the New York Times that looks at the search for habitable extrasolar planets with life.

On the edge of a golden lake, fugitives Zak Nine and his Quom friend Erro discover an ancient golden building and stumble into a room with eight sides and eight doors, seven of which are traps which will kill, and one of which will lead to a way out--and it is up to Zak's experience with games to figure out which is the safe door before this octagon kills them.

Traveling at night, Zak and Erro follow a figure into a cave and discover a number of other escapees are hiding in an abandoned diamond mine--but one of their fellows is actually a traitor who has betrayed the hiding place to the guards, and in the darkness only Erro's superior nose can help the boys find their way out of this trap.