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.
Key facts about Whipping Star
Frank Herbert wrote Whipping Star, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1970. The book has 188 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780425041161 to find the main one.
Whipping Star is book 1 of 2 in the ConSentiency Universe series. The series has 2 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Frank Herbert writes Dune and Destination: Void as separate series. Those series sit on our science fiction shelf. Meanwhile, The Ascension Factor is the latest published Frank Herbert book on file, from 1988.
About Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert was an American science fiction author best known for Dune, the 1965 novel widely regarded as one of the most influential works in the genre's history and the bestselling science fiction novel of all time. See every Frank Herbert book in order.
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