Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune)
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Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune)
The desert has bloomed. Where once only the vast expanse of golden sand stretched endlessly beneath twin suns, Arrakis now flows with water and verdant life. Yet this transformation—this miracle wrought by Paul Atreides and the Fremen—contains the seeds of catastrophe. Old Paul, the messiah-emperor who unified the galaxy under Fremen rule, has vanished into legend. But his absence leaves a void that threatens to engulf everything he built. The altered climate that brought fertility to Arrakis is destroying the giant sandworms—the source of the spice that makes interstellar travel possible and fuels the galactic economy itself. Without the worms, without the spice, the entire civilisation that Paul conquered teeters on the brink of collapse.
Into this fractured world step Leto and Ghanima, Paul's twin children and rightful heirs to the Atreides empire. They alone can perceive the terrible balance upon which their world depends; they alone possess the vision to navigate the impossible choices ahead. Yet their path to power is treacherous. Fanatics challenge Atreides rule, scheming to seize control. Enemies both known and hidden circle like predators. And within the twins themselves lies a mystery—a legacy and a power that threatens to transform them into something far more, or far less, than human. Frank Herbert's third masterpiece in the Dune saga is a deeply climate-conscious novel that explores the unintended consequences of empire, the burden of inheritance, and the fragile equilibrium upon which civilisation depends. What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction—an awe-inspiring world and a story of truly epic scope.
Read the series that inspired the Academy Award-winning cinematic events Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two.
Publisher: Gollancz
Date Published: 28/01/2021
ISBN: 9781473233782
Number of pages: 432
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