Sci-Fi & Speculative

God Emperor of Dune

by Frank Herbert · Dune series

Thirty-five hundred years after the desert planet's transformation, Leto Atreides II rules as a hybrid god-emperor—part human, part sandworm—sacrificing his humanity to shepherd mankind's survival. Now Arrakis blooms green, but Leto's tyrannical prescience guides civilization along a razor's edge between stagnation and extinction. Herbert's most philosophical and controversial Dune novel examines power, evolution, and the terrible price of enforced peace.

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