God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert – ISBN 9781440631979

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The most philosophical Dune novel—and the strangest. God Emperor of Dune is the fourth novel in Frank Herbert’s landmark saga, set three and a half thousand years after the events of Children of Dune. Leto II Atreides—Paul’s son, fused with sandtrout into a near-immortal human-sandworm hybrid—rules the universe as the tyrannical God Emperor, his absolute control of the spice melange bringing humanity an enforced peace at the terrible price of stagnation.

Driving his reign is the Golden Path: Leto’s secret plan to save humankind from extinction by teaching it a lesson it will never forget. Around him circle the latest Duncan Idaho ghola, the rebellious Siona Atreides—bred invisible to prescience—and Hwi Noree, the Ixian ambassador who awakens the last embers of Leto’s lost humanity. Published in 1981, this is a meditation on power, sacrifice, love, and the future of the species.

Essential for every science fiction library. Read it after Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune—the payoff lands hardest with the full history of House Atreides behind it.

God Emperor of Dune is the fourth novel in Frank Herbert’s landmark Dune saga. Three and a half thousand years after the events of Children of Dune, Leto II Atreides — Paul’s son, fused with sandtrout into a near-immortal human-sandworm hybrid — rules the universe as the tyrannical God Emperor. His absolute control of the spice melange has brought humanity an enforced peace, but at a terrible price: stagnation.

Driving his reign is the Golden Path, Leto’s secret plan to save humankind from extinction by teaching it a lesson it will never forget. Around him circle the latest Duncan Idaho ghola, the rebellious Siona Atreides — bred invisible to prescience — and Hwi Noree, the Ixian ambassador who awakens the last embers of Leto’s lost humanity.

Published in 1981, this is Herbert’s most philosophical Dune novel: a meditation on power, sacrifice, love and the future of the species. Essential for every science fiction library. Preview the book below with our interactive 3D flipbook.

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