God Emperor of Dune
Book Four in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time
Millennia 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 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....
Millennia 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 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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Community Reviews
Narrative solely carried by dialogue. The whole book is just meeting after meeting after meeting. The few women in this book are just meek, naive sex objects. There was no reason for me to care about any of the characters. Better than the third, but I have the same opinion—rough draft and VERY clearly written by a Man in the ‘70s. It could have been twice as long and twice as interesting if Hebert slowed down and added some damned description, wrote some scenes outside of a meeting room, and did something besides just literally telling us what’s going on.
Dune 4
Leto II The Younger is now the half-sandworm God Emperor, simultaneously saving and oppressing humanity for thousands of years.
(How (not) to put humanity on The Golden Path.)
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