The Emperor - God of Dune Frank Herbert
Vol. 4
In this novel, Frank Herbert had the courage to exploit a genre considered by many to be distant from the themes of real life to write a unique story, full of profound social criticism and a stunning topicality.
- Plot The Emperor - God of Dunes Frank Herbert
After millennia of domination over the universe, the Emperor-God Leto II, a hybrid produced by the fusion of his human body with several sand trout, was able to witness the profound change of Arrakis, now known only as Rakis. The ancient stretches of sand are only a distant memory, and the planet is very different from the arid Dune. The vegetation is flourishing and the water gushes abundantly, and there is no longer any trace of the sand worms. Leto II has devoted every energy to increasing his enormous powers, with the sole result of becoming an abject and inhuman creature, casting a menacing shadow on the Golden Path. Commander Duncan Idaho is faced with an incredibly difficult moral question: what is the right choice, to remain loyal to the Atreides, for better or for worse, or to fight against an evil tyrant who brings only ruin and oppression to the peoples?
"Frank Herbert is an extraordinary phenomenon in Sci-Fi" - The Washington Post
- The other chapters of Dune
- Dune (Dune, 1965)
- Messiah of Dune (Dune Messiah, 1969)
- Children of Dune (1977)
- God Emperor of Dune (1981)
- Heretics of Dune, 1984
- Chapterhouse Dune (1985)
- The Dune Hunters
- The Sandworms of Dune
- Themes: the themes dealt with in the Dune Cycle are dear to the author. These range from human evolution and survival, ecology and the intertwining of religion, politics and power.
Dune is considered by many to be the mainstay of epic science fiction.
Frank Herbert was an American science fiction writer and author. Critically acclaimed, he is best known for The Dune Cycle. Also, with Dune, Herbert won the Nobel Prize in 1965.
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