Part of Dune · Book 4
God Emperor of Dune
by Frank Herbert · from Dune
- Published
- May 28, 1981
- Publication #
- 4
- Chronology #
- 19
- Pages
- 411
God Emperor of Dune jumps 3,500 years past Children of Dune. Leto II has merged with sandtrout to become a near-immortal tyrant whose despotic peace is meant to inoculate humanity against all future tyrants. The novel is built around dialogues — with his Duncan Idaho gholas, with the historian Siona, with his rebellious Fremen descendants.
It is the philosophical center of the saga and a deliberate tonal shift from everything before it.
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