Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond.Īt the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever.Ģ006 TOR hardcover, Brian Herbert (Mentats of Dune), Kevin J. Here is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world-and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. In this, the fifth and most spectacular Dune book of all, the planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-is becoming desert again. But to achieve his final victory, Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall.
He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. The nine-year-old royal twins, possesing their father's supernatural powers, are being groomed as Messiahs.īut there are those who think the Imperium does not need messiahs. The desert planet of Arrakis has begun to grow green and lush. ( Dune Messiah) Dune Messiah continues the story of the man Muad'dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to completion the centuries-old scheme to create a super-being. The story explores the complex, multi-layered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion as the forces of the empire confront each other for control of Arrakis. Set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar empire where planetary dynasties are controlled by noble houses that owe an allegiance to the imperial House Corrino, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides (the heir apparent to Duke Leto Atreides and heir of House Atreides) as he and his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the 'spice' melange, the most important and valuable substance in the cosmos.
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