ConSentiency Universe · Book 1
Whipping Star
- Published
- 1 January 1970
- Pages
- 188
- ISBN-13
- 9780425041161
- Type
- novel
About this book
Frank Herbert's Whipping Star (1970), a comparatively brief 188 pages, introduces Bureau of Sabotage agent Jorj X. McKie racing to prevent the accidental murder of a sentient star whose death would kill everyone connected to it across the galaxy.
Its place in ConSentiency Universe
Whipping Star is book 1 in the ConSentiency Universe series. It is followed by The Dosadi Experiment. See the full ConSentiency Universe reading order.
Set in a galaxy-spanning bureaucratic federation of sentient species called the ConSentiency, these two novels are linked by their investigator protagonist, Jorj X. McKie, an agent of the Bureau of Sabotage -- an agency whose entire mandate is to deliberately slow down galactic government just enough to keep it from becoming dangerously efficient and tyrannical. Whipping Star (1970) sends McKie to prevent the accidental murder of a sentient star, a being whose death would also kill everyone connected to it across…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780425041161