Book Four in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All TimeMillennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world’s savior, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity’s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality … near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years.
Leto’s rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance but his morality inhuman. A rebellion, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family, has risen to oppose the despot’s rule. But Siona is unaware that Leto’s vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted—or could possibly conceive….
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This book is related to Dune. I bought it and have read it more than once.
At first, I didn’t understand the story. So, I re-read it.
Original and thought provoking science fiction.
This is a very interesting failure. But it’s still a failure. Some of the really far out concepts are cool to explore but it’s kind of unsettling about so many pages dedicated to the methodology of a brutal dictator. I can’t imagine devoting this much energy to writing a fictional manifesto unless you actually kind of agree with these ideas. You should probably only read this if you really really like the first three books.
for those who love frank herbert’s dune series