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Whipping Star

  • Frank Herbert

3.25

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In the future, "jumpdoors" presented to mankind by the mysterious entities known as Calebans have made instantaneous travel -- to any point in the Galaxy -- a commonplace. But the Calebans are vanishing, and now only one is left -- and two agents of the Bureau of Sabotage make a horrifying discovery: When the last Caleban dies, so will everyone, everywhere, who has ever used a jumpdoor! And nobody is known not to have "jumped" at least once....

The Caleban must be kept alive -- but it is under contract to a psychotic millionairess who is subjecting it to systematic, damaging torture....

From this weird situation, Frank Herbert spins a colorful, fast-moving tale, set in an exotic future civilization -- deft, dramatic, shimmering with the "sense of wonder" that marks the best SF.

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  • Fiction in English
  • American Science fiction
  • Fiction, science fiction, general
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About the author

  • Frank Herbert

    8 October 1920 - 11 February 1986

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    R. Laffont

    1973

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    LGF

    April 1, 1989

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    Berkley

    Apr 12, 1982

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    Brand: Berkley, Berkley

    Mar 15, 1980

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Tantor Audio

May 12, 2008

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    1st Tor pbk. ed.

    Tor

    2009

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    Berkley, Berkley Medallion

    November 1, 1970

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    New English Library

    1972

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    Putnam

    1970

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    Berkley

    1977

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    Gregg Pr

    Jan 01, 1981

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    Berkley Medallion Edition (9)

    Berkley

    September 15, 1977

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    Putnam Pub Group

    June 1970

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    Gregg Press

    1980

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    New English Library

    1979

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    Berkley

    1970

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    Berkley

    December 1, 1983

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    1st Tor pbk. ed.

    Tor

    2009

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    Berkley

    January 1, 1975

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    Ace

    January 1, 1992

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    Berkley

    October 15, 1986

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    Berkley

    August 15, 1977

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    Berkley

    April 15, 1984

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    Unabridged edition

    Tantor Media

    February 1, 2008

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    Unabridged edition

    Tantor Media

    February 1, 2008