Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.3
Points
34.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
186753
Points per Word
0.000182
Page Count
621
Points per Page
0.05475
Description
Co-authored by Kevin J. Anderson, this prequel to DUNE goes back ten thousand years, chronicling the war in which humans won their freedom from their "thinking machine" masters and shows how the houses of Atreides and Harkonnen became mortal enemies.