Note: Translated by diverse hands, revised by Pierre-Paul Durastanti. Texts collected by Pierre-Paul Durastanti.

Synopsis: "Bringing together forty short stories and short novels, including various unpublished novels, the present complete, unique in french, completes to consecrate the author of Dune for what he is, one of the giants of world science fiction, demiurge of a truly fascinating, ironic and tragic work. Frank Herbert's work is also a warning. Without pretending to be prophetic, it announces the coming of the prophets. It testifies to the only certainty that remains to us, namely the dissolution of a certain image of man and the social, economic and political structures that carried it, and the uncertainties, anxieties, conflicts and violence concomitant with this interregnum which perhaps preludes the establishment of a new order still in limbo or at least indistinct to our myopic eyes. It reveals to us an unpleasant future but to tell us after all that we already live there, and as does the work of Ursula Le Guin, that as a species we will survive it." Goodreads April 13, 2022