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Dune
Created byFrank Herbert
Original workDune (1965)
Print publications
Book(s)
  • The Illustrated Dune (1978)
  • The Dune Encyclopedia (1984)
  • The Making of Dune (1984)
  • The Dune Storybook (1984)
  • Songs of Muad'dib (1992)
  • The Road to Dune (2005)
Novel(s)
  • Frank Herbert:
  • Dune (1965)
  • Dune Messiah (1969)
  • Children of Dune (1976)
  • God Emperor of Dune (1981)
  • Heretics of Dune (1984)
  • Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)
  • Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson:
  • Prelude to Dune series:
    • House Atreides (1999)
    • House Harkonnen (2000)
    • House Corrino (2001)
  • Legends of Dune series:
    • The Butlerian Jihad (2002)
    • The Machine Crusade (2003)
    • The Battle of Corrin (2004)
  • Hunters of Dune (2006)
  • Sandworms of Dune (2007)
  • Heroes of Dune series:
    • Paul of Dune (2008)
    • The Winds of Dune (2009)
  • Great Schools of Dune series:
    • Sisterhood of Dune (2012)
    • Mentats of Dune (2014)
    • Navigators of Dune (2016)
Short stories
  • Frank Herbert:
  • 'The Road to Dune' (1985)
  • Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson:
  • 'A Whisper of Caladan Seas' (2001)
  • 'Hunting Harkonnens' (2002)
  • 'Whipping Mek' (2003)
  • 'The Faces of a Martyr' (2004)
  • 'Sea Child' (2006)
  • 'Treasure in the Sand' (2006)
  • 'Wedding Silk' (2011)
  • 'Red Plague' (2016)
Comics
  • Dune: The Official Comic Book (1984)
  • Marvel Comics Super Special #36: Dune (1985)
  • Dune (1985 comics series)
Films and television
Film(s)
Television series
  • Frank Herbert's Dune (2000)
  • Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003)
Games
Traditional
  • Avalon Hill's Dune board game (1979)
  • Parker Brothers' Dune board game (1984)
  • Dune card game (1997)
Role-playingDune: Chronicles of the Imperium (2000)
Video game(s)
  • Dune (1992)
  • Dune II (1992)
  • Dune 2000 (1998)
  • Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001)
  • Frank Herbert's Dune (2001)
Audio
Soundtrack(s)
  • Dune (1984)
  • Dune: Spice Opera (games, 1992)
  • Frank Herbert's Dune (2000)
  • Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001)
  • Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003)

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Dune is a science fictionmedia franchise that originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Dune is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history.[1][2] It won the 1966 Hugo Award[3] and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel,[4] and was later adapted into a 1984 film and a 2000 television miniseries. Herbert wrote five sequels, and the first two were presented as a miniseries in 2003. The Dune universe has also inspired some traditional games and a series of video games. Since 2009, the names of planets from the Dune novels have been adopted for the real-world nomenclature of plains and other features on Saturn's moon Titan.[5][6][7]

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Frank Herbert died in 1986.[8][9] Beginning in 1999, his son Brian Herbert and science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson published a number of prequel novels, as well as two which complete the original Dune series (Hunters of Dune in 2006 and Sandworms of Dune in 2007), partially based on Frank Herbert's notes discovered a decade after his death.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]

The political, scientific, and socialfictional setting of Herbert's novels and derivative works is known as the Dune universe, or Duniverse.[18] Set tens of thousands of years in the future, the saga chronicles a civilization which has banned all forms of computers, or 'thinking machines', but has also developed advanced technology and mental and physical abilities. Vital to this empire is the harsh desert planetArrakis, only known source of the spice melange, the most valuable substance in the universe.

Due to the similarities between some of Herbert's terms and ideas and actual words and concepts in the Arabic language, as well as the series' 'Islamicundertones' and themes, a Middle Eastern influence on Herbert's works has been noted repeatedly.[19][20]

  • 1Development and publication
  • 3In other media
  • 4Plot arc

Development and publication[edit]

Original series[edit]

Herbert's interest in the desert setting of Dune and its challenges is attributed to research he began in 1957 for a never-completed article about a United States Department of Agriculture experiment using poverty grasses to stabilize damaging sand dunes, which could 'swallow whole cities, lakes, rivers, and highways.'[21] Herbert spent the next five years researching, writing, and revising what would eventually become the novel Dune,[21] which was initially serialized in Analog magazine as two shorter works, Dune World (1963) and The Prophet of Dune (1965).[22] The serialized version was expanded and reworked—and rejected by more than 20 publishers—before being published by Chilton Books, a little-known printing house best known for its auto repair manuals, in 1965.[23]Dune won the 1966 Hugo Award and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel.[3][4] The novel has been translated into dozens of languages, and has sold almost 20 million copies.[24]Dune has been regularly cited as one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels.[1][2]

A sequel, Dune Messiah, followed in 1969.[25] A third novel called Children of Dune was published in 1976, and was later nominated for a Hugo Award.[26]Children of Dune became the first hardcover best-seller ever in the science fiction field.[27]

In 1978, Berkley Books published The Illustrated Dune, an edition of Dune with 33 black-and-white sketch drawings and eight full color paintings by John Schoenherr, who had done the cover art for the first printing of Dune and had illustrated the Analog serializations of Dune and Children of Dune.[28] Herbert wrote in 1980 that though he had not spoken to Schoenherr prior to the artist creating the paintings, the author was surprised to find that the artwork appeared exactly as he had imagined its fictional subjects, including sandworms, Baron Harkonnen and the Sardaukar.[29]

In 1981, Herbert released God Emperor of Dune, which was ranked as the #11 hardcover fiction best seller of 1981 by Publishers Weekly.[30]Heretics of Dune, the 1984 New York Times #13 hardcover fiction best seller,[31] was followed in quick succession by Chapterhouse: Dune in 1985.[32] Herbert died on February 11, 1986.[8]

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson[edit]

Over a decade after Herbert's death, his son Brian Herbert enlisted science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson to coauthor a trilogy of Duneprequel novels that would come to be called the Prelude to Dune series.[15] Using some of Frank Herbert's own notes,[15][13] the duo wrote Dune: House Atreides (1999), Dune: House Harkonnen (2000), and Dune: House Corrino (2001). The series is set in the years immediately prior to the events of Dune. This was followed with a second prequel trilogy called the Legends of Dune, consisting of Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (2002), Dune: The Machine Crusade (2003), and Dune: The Battle of Corrin (2004). These were set during the Butlerian Jihad, an element of back-story which Frank Herbert had previously established as occurring 10,000 years before the events chronicled in Dune.[33] Herbert's brief description of humanity's 'crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots'[34] was expanded by Brian Herbert and Anderson in this series.[33]

With an outline for the first book of Prelude to Dune series written and a proposal sent to publishers,[14] Brian Herbert had discovered his father's 30-page outline for a sequel to Chapterhouse Dune which the elder Herbert had dubbed Dune 7.[12] After publishing their six prequel novels, Brian Herbert and Anderson released Hunters of Dune (2006) and Sandworms of Dune (2007), which complete the original series and wrap up storylines that began with Frank Herbert's Heretics of Dune.

The Heroes of Dune series followed, focusing on the time periods between Frank Herbert's original novels.[15][35][36][37] The first book, Paul of Dune, was published in 2008,[38] followed by The Winds of Dune[36][39] in 2009.[40] The next two installments were to be called The Throne of Dune and Leto of Dune (possibly changing to The Golden Path of Dune),[41] but were postponed due to plans to publish a trilogy about 'the formation of the Bene Gesserit, the Mentats, the Suk Doctors, the Spacing Guild and the Navigators, as well as the solidifying of the Corrino imperium.'[42]Sisterhood of Dune was released in 2012,[42] followed by Mentats of Dune in 2014. In a 2009 interview, Anderson stated that the third and final novel would be titled The Swordmasters of Dune,[12] but by 2014 it had been renamed Navigators of Dune[43] and was published in 2016.

Short stories[edit]

In 1985, Frank Herbert wrote an illustrated short work called 'The Road to Dune', set sometime between the events of Dune and Dune Messiah. Published in Herbert's short story collectionEye, it takes the form of a guidebook for pilgrims to Arrakis and features images (with descriptions) of some of the devices and characters presented in the novels.[44]

Brian Herbert and Anderson have written several Dune short stories, most of them related to and published around their novels. The stories include 'Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas' (2001), 'Dune: Hunting Harkonnens' (2002), 'Dune: Whipping Mek' (2003), 'Dune: The Faces of a Martyr' (2004), 'Dune: Sea Child' (2006), and 'Dune: Treasure in the Sand' (2006).

By other authors[edit]

In 1984, Herbert's publisher Putnam released The Dune Encyclopedia under its Berkley Books imprint.[45][46] Approved by Herbert but not written by him, this collection of essays by 43 contributors describes in invented detail many aspects of the Dune universe not found in the novels themselves.[47] Herbert's estate later confirmed its non-canon status after Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson had begun publishing prequel novels that directly contradict The Dune Encyclopedia.[48]

The 1984 Dune film spawned The Dune Storybook (September 1984, ISBN0-399-12949-9), a novelization written by Joan D. Vinge,[46][49] and The Making of Dune (December 1984, ISBN0-425-07376-9), a making-of book by Ed Naha.[46][50] In November 1984, Pocket Books published National Lampoon's Doon by Ellis Weiner (ISBN0-671-54144-7), a parody novel.[46]

In May 1992, Ace Books published Songs of Muad'dib (ISBN0-441-77427-X), a collection of Dune-related poems written by Frank Herbert and edited by his son Brian.[46][51] Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson released The Road to Dune on August 11, 2005. The book contains a novelette called Spice Planet (an alternative version of Dune based on an outline by Frank Herbert), a number of the Brian Herbert/Anderson short stories, and letters and unused chapters written by Frank Herbert.[52]

In other media[edit]

Film[edit]

In 1973, director and writer Alejandro Jodorowsky set about creating a cinematic adaptation, taking over the option that producer Arthur P. Jacobs had put on the film adaptation rights in 1973 shortly before his death. Jodorowsky approached, among others, Peter Gabriel, the prog rock groups Pink Floyd and Magma for some of the music, artists H. R. Giger and Jean Giraud for set and character design, Dan O'Bannon and Douglas Trumbull for special effects, and Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, and others for the cast.[53] He began writing a vast script, so expansive that the movie was thought to potentially last 14 hours. The project, nevertheless, was nipped in the bud for financial reasons, leaving Jodorowsky's unfinished handwritten script in a notebook that was partially published as a facsimile in 2012 as part of the 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts catalog of the 13thdocumenta exhibition.[54] Frank Pavich directed a documentary about this unrealized project entitled Jodorowsky's Dune, which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in May 2013,[55] and was released theatrically in March 2014.[56]

In 1984, Dino De Laurentiis and Universal Pictures released Dune, a feature film adaptation of the novel by director and writer David Lynch.[57] Although a commercial and critical failure upon release, Frank Herbert himself was reportedly pleased with the movie, as it stayed more faithful to the book than earlier movie adaptation attempts, although he had his reservations on its failures at the time, citing the lack of 'imagination' in its marketing and estimated costs, and some of the filmmaker's production techniques.[58]

In 2008, Paramount Pictures announced that they had a new feature film adaptation of Dune in development with Peter Berg set to direct;[59] Berg dropped out of the project in October 2009,[60] and director Pierre Morel was signed in January 2010.[61] Paramount dropped the project in March 2011.[62][63]

In November 2016, Legendary Entertainment acquired the film and TV rights for Dune.[64][65]Variety reported in December 2016 that Denis Villeneuve was in negotiations to direct the project,[66] which was confirmed in February 2017.[67] In early 2018, Villeneuve stated that his goal was to adapt the novel into a two-part film series.[68] He said in May 2018 that the first draft of the script had been finished.[69][70] Villeneuve said, 'Most of the main ideas of Star Wars are coming from Dune so it's going to be a challenge to [tackle] this. The ambition is to do the Star Wars movie I never saw. In a way, it's Star Wars for adults.'[71] In July 2018, Brian Herbert confirmed that the latest draft of the screenplay covered 'approximately half of the novel Dune.'[72]Timothée Chalamet is to play Paul Atreides.[73]Greig Fraser joined the project as cinematographer in December 2018.[74] In September 2018, it was reported that Rebecca Ferguson was in talks to play Jessica Atreides.[75] In January 2019, Dave Bautista[76] and Stellan Skarsgård[77] joined the production, playing Glossu Rabban and Vladimir Harkonnen, respectively. It was reported later that month that Charlotte Rampling had been cast as Reverend Mother Mohiam,[78]Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto,[79]Zendaya as Chani,[80] and Javier Bardem as Stilgar.[81] In February 2019, Josh Brolin was cast as Gurney Halleck,[82]Jason Momoa as Duncan Idaho,[83] and David Dastmalchian as Piter De Vries.[84] Filming began March 18, 2019, and the film will be shot on location in Budapest, Hungary and Jordan.[85]Warner Bros. will distribute the film, which will be released on November 20, 2020.[86]

Television[edit]

Syfy (Sci-Fi Channel) premiered a three-part miniseries adaptation called Frank Herbert's Dune on December 3, 2000.[87] Its March 16, 2003 sequel, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, combined both Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. As of 2004, both miniseries were two of the three highest-rated programs ever to be broadcast on Syfy.[15]Frank Herbert's Dune won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2001, for Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie[88] and Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special.[89] The miniseries was also nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special.[90]Frank Herbert's Children of Dune won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special in 2003.[91] The miniseries was also nominated for Emmys for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special,[92]Outstanding Hairstyling for a Limited Series or Movie,[92] and Outstanding Makeup for a Limited Series or Movie (Non-Prosthetic).[93]

Comics[edit]

On December 1, 1984, Marvel Comics and Berkley published Dune: The Official Comic Book (ISBN0-425-07623-7), a comic adaptation of David Lynch's film Dune.[46]Marvel Super Special #36: Dune featuring an adaptation of the film by writer Ralph Macchio and artist Bill Sienkiewicz[94] was released on April 1, 1985, as well as a three-issue limited comic series from Marvel entitled Dune from April to June 1985.[46][95]

Games[edit]

The board gameDune was released by Avalon Hill in 1979, followed by a Parker Brothers game Dune in 1984. A 1997 card game called Dune[96] was followed by the role-playing gameDune: Chronicles of the Imperium in 2000.[97][98] To date, there have been five Dune computer and video games released. Following Dune (1992), the most famous video game adaptation was Westwood Studios' Dune II (1992), which is credited for popularizing and setting the template for the real-time strategy genre of computer games.[99][100] It was followed by Dune 2000 (1998), Frank Herbert's Dune (2001), and Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001).

On February 26, 2019, Funcom announced that it was entering into an exclusive partnership with Legendary Entertainment to develop games related to the upcoming Dune films.[101]

Music[edit]

Soundtrack albums have been released for the 1984 film, the 2000 TV miniseries, and the 2003 Children of Dune miniseries, as well as the 1992 video game, the 2001 computer game Emperor: Battle for Dune, and select tracks from the entire series of Dune video games.[102]

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Plot arc[edit]

In-universe chronology[103]
TitleDate
'Hunting Harkonnens'2002
The Butlerian Jihad2002
'Whipping Mek'2003
The Machine Crusade2003
'The Faces of a Martyr'2004
The Battle of Corrin2004
Sisterhood of Dune2012
Mentats of Dune2014
'Red Plague'2016
Navigators of Dune2016
House Atreides1999
House Harkonnen2000
House Corrino2001
Paul of Dune(Parts II, IV, VI)2008
'Wedding Silk'2011
The Winds of Dune(Part II)2009
Dune1965
'Whisper of Caladan Seas'2001
'The Waters of Kanly'2017
Paul of Dune(Parts I, III, V, VII)2008
The Winds of Dune(Part IV)2009
'The Road to Dune'1985
Dune Messiah1969
The Winds of Dune(Parts I, III, V)2009
Children of Dune1976
God Emperor of Dune1981
Heretics of Dune1984
Chapterhouse: Dune1985
'Sea Child'2006
'Treasure in the Sand'2006
Hunters of Dune2006
Sandworms of Dune2007

The Dune universe, set in the distant future of humanity, has a history that stretches thousands of years (some 15,000 years in total) and covers considerable changes in political, social, and religious structure as well as technology. Creative works set in the Dune universe can be said to fall into five general time periods:

  • The Butlerian Jihad: Legends of Duneprequeltrilogy (2002–2004) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson; Great Schools of Dune (2014–2016) by Brian Herbert and Anderson
  • The Corrino-led Imperium: Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999–2001) by Brian Herbert and Anderson; Heroes of Dune series (2008–2009) by Brian Herbert and Anderson
  • The rise of the Atreides: Dune (1965), Dune Messiah (1969), and Children of Dune (1976) by Frank Herbert; Heroes of Dune series (2008–present) by Brian Herbert and Anderson
  • The reign and fall of the God Emperor: God Emperor of Dune (1981) by Frank Herbert
  • The return from the Scattering: Heretics of Dune (1984) and Chapterhouse: Dune (1985) by Frank Herbert; Hunters of Dune (2006) and Sandworms of Dune (2007) by Brian Herbert and Anderson

The Butlerian Jihad[edit]

As explained in Dune, the Butlerian Jihad is a conflict taking place over 11,000 years in the future[104] (and over 10,000 years before the events of Dune) which results in the total destruction of virtually all forms of 'computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots'.[34] With the prohibition 'Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind,' the creation of even the simplest thinking machines is outlawed and made taboo, which has a profound influence on the socio-political and technological development of humanity in the Dune series.[34] Herbert refers to the Jihad several times in the novels, but does not give much detail on how he imagined the causes and nature of the conflict.[33]

In Herbert's God Emperor of Dune (1981), Leto II Atreides indicates that the Jihad had been a semi-religious social upheaval initiated by humans who felt repulsed by how guided and controlled they had become by machines:

'The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines..Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed.'[105]

This technological reversal leads to the creation of the universal Orange Catholic Bible and the rise of a new feudal pan-galactic empire which lasts for over 10,000 years before Herbert's series begins.[106][107] Several secret societies also develop, using eugenics programs, intensive mental and physical training, and pharmaceutical enhancements to hone human skills to an astonishing degree.[106]Artificial insemination is also prohibited, as explained in Dune Messiah (1969), when Paul Atreides negotiates with the Reverend MotherGaius Helen Mohiam, who is appalled by Paul's suggestion that he impregnate his consort in this manner.[108]

Herbert died in 1986,[8][9] leaving his vision of the actual events of the Butlerian Jihad unexplored and open to speculation.[33] The Legends of Dune prequel trilogy (2002–2004) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson presents the Jihad as a war between humans and the sentient machines they had created, who rise up and nearly destroy humanity.[109] The series explains that humanity had become entirely complacent and dependent upon thinking machines; recognizing this weakness, a group of ambitious, militant humans calling themselves the Titans use this widespread reliance on machine intelligence to seize control of the entire universe.[109] Their reign lasts for a century; eventually they give too much access and power to the AI program Omnius, which usurps control from the Titans themselves.[33][109] Seeing no value in human life, the thinking machines—now including armies of robot soldiers and other aggressive machines—dominate and enslave nearly all of humanity in the universe for 900 years, until a jihad is ignited.[33] This crusade against the machines lasts for nearly a century, with much loss of human life but ultimately ending in human victory.[109]

The Corrino-led Imperium[edit]

The ancient Battle of Corrin—occurring 20 years after the end of the Butlerian Jihad—spawns the Padishah Emperors of House Corrino, who rule the known universe for millennia by controlling the brutally efficient military force known as the Imperial Sardaukar. Ten thousand years later, one balance to Imperial power is the assembly of noble houses called the Landsraad, which enforces the Great Convention's ban on the use of atomics against human targets. Though the power of the Corrinos is unrivaled by any individual House, they are in constant competition with each other for political power and stakes in the omnipresent CHOAM company, a directorship which controls the wealth of the entire Old Empire. The third primary power in the universe is the Spacing Guild, which monopolizes interstellar travel and banking. Mutated Guild Navigators use the spice drug melange to successfully navigate 'folded space' and safely guide enormous heighlinerstarships from planet to planet instantaneously.[106][110]

The matriarchalBene Gesserit possess almost superhuman physical, sensory, and deductive powers developed through years of physical and mental conditioning. While positioning themselves to 'serve' humanity, the Bene Gesserit pursue their goal to better the human race by subtly and secretly guiding and manipulating the affairs of others to serve their own purposes. The Bene Gesserit also have a secret, millennia-long selective breeding program to bolster and preserve valuable skills and bloodlines as well as to produce a theoretical superhuman male they call the Kwisatz Haderach. By the time of Dune, the Sisterhood are only one generation away from their desired individual, having manipulated the threads of genes and power for thousands of years to produce the required confluence of events. But Lady Jessica, ordered by the Bene Gesserit to produce a daughter who would breed with the appropriate male to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, instead bears a son—unintentionally producing the Kwisatz Haderach a generation early.[106]

'Human computers' known as Mentats have been developed and perfected to replace the capacity for logical analysis lost through the prohibition of computers. Through specific training, they learn to enter a heightened mental state in which they can perform complex logical computations that are superior to those of the ancient thinking machines. The patriarchalBene Tleilax, or Tleilaxu, are amoral merchants who traffic in biological and genetically engineered products such as artificial eyes, 'twisted' Mentats, and gholas. Finally, the Ixians produce cutting-edge technology that seemingly complies with (but pushes the boundaries of) the prohibitions against thinking machines. The Ixians are very secretive, not only to protect their valuable hold on the industry but also to hide any methods or inventions that may breach the anti-thinking machine protocols.[106]

Against this backdrop, the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999–2001) chronicles the return from obscurity of House Atreides, whose role in the Butlerian Jihad is all but forgotten. The Imperial House schemes to gain full control of the Empire through the control of melange, precisely at the time that the Bene Gesserit breeding program is nearing fruition.[111]

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The rise of the Atreides[edit]

As Frank Herbert's Dune (1965) begins, Duke Leto Atreides finds himself in a dangerous position; the 81st Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV has put him in control of the desert planetArrakis, known as Dune, which is the only natural source of the all-important spice melange. The most valuable commodity in the known universe, the spice not only makes safe and reliable interstellar travel possible, but also prolongs life, protects against disease, and is used by the Bene Gesserit to enhance their abilities. The potential financial gains for House Atreides are mitigated by the fact that mining melange from the desert surface of Arrakis is an expensive and hazardous undertaking, thanks to the treacherous environment and constant threat of giant sandworms which protect the spice. In addition, Leto is aware that Shaddam, feeling threatened by the rising power and influence of the Atreides, has sent him into a trap; failure to meet or exceed the production volume of their predecessors, the vicious House Harkonnen, will negatively affect the position of House Atreides in CHOAM, which relies on spice profits.[106] Further, the very presence of the Atreides on Arrakis inflames the long-simmering War of Assassins between House Atreides and House Harkonnen, a feud ignited 10,000 years before when an Atreides had a Harkonnen banished for cowardice after the Butlerian Jihad.[112][113]

The little-understood native population of Arrakis are the Fremen, long overlooked by the Imperium. Considered backward savages, the Fremen are an extremely hardy people and exist in large numbers, their culture built around the commodity of water, which is extremely scarce on Arrakis. The Fremen await the coming of a prophesied messiah, not suspecting that this prophecy had been planted in their legends by the Missionaria Protectiva, an arm of the Bene Gesserit dedicated to religious manipulation to ease the path of the Sisterhood when necessary. In Dune, the so-called 'Arrakis Affair' puts unexpected Kwisatz Haderach Paul Atreides in control of first the Fremen people and then Arrakis itself; he deposes Shaddam and becomes ruler of the known universe.[106] With a bloody jihad subsequently unleashed across the universe in Paul's name but out of his control, the Bene Gesserit, Tleilaxu, Spacing Guild, and House Corrino plot to dethrone him in Dune Messiah (1969).[108] The Atreides Empire continues to devolve in Children of Dune (1976) as the religion built around Paul falters and his heirs rise to power.[114]

The Heroes of Dune series (2008–present) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson follows events involving the Atreides before, between, and after Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune.[115]

The reign and fall of the God Emperor[edit]

At the time of God Emperor of Dune (1981), Paul's son, the God Emperor Leto II Atreides, has ruled the Empire for 3,500 years from the verdant face of a transformed Arrakis; melange production has ceased. Leto has forced the sandworms into extinction, except for the larval sandtrout with which he had forged a symbiosis, transforming him into a human-sandworm hybrid. Human civilization before his rule had suffered from twin weaknesses: that it could be controlled by a single authority, and that it was totally dependent upon melange, found on only one planet in the known universe. Leto's prescient visions had shown that humanity would be threatened by extinction in any number of ways; his solution was to place humanity on his 'Golden Path,' a plan for humanity's survival. Leto governs as a benevolent tyrant, providing for his people's physical needs, but denying them any spiritual outlets other than his own compulsory religion (as well as maintaining a monopoly on spice and thus total control of its use). Personal violence of any kind is banned, as is nearly all space travel, creating a pent-up demand for freedom and travel. The Bene Gesserit, Ixians, and Tleilaxu find themselves seeking ways to regain some of their former power or unseat Leto altogether. Leto also conducts his own selective breeding program among the descendants of his twin sister Ghanima, finally arriving at Siona, daughter of Moneo, whose actions are hidden from prescient vision. Leto engineers his own assassination, knowing it will result in rebellion and revolt but also in an explosion in travel and colonization. The death of Leto's body also produces new sandtrout, which will eventually give rise to a population of sandworms and a new cycle of spice production.[105]

The return from the Scattering[edit]

In the aftermath of the fall of the God Emperor, chaos and severe famine on many worlds cause trillions of humans to set off into the freedom of unknown space and spread out across the universe. This diaspora is later called the Scattering and, combined with the invisibility of Atreides descendants to prescient vision, assures that humanity has forever escaped the threat of total extinction. At the time of Heretics of Dune (1984) and Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)—1500 years after Leto's death—the turmoil is settling into a new pattern; the balance of power in the Empire rests among the Ixians, the Bene Gesserit, and the Tleilaxu. The Spacing Guild has been forever weakened by the development of Ixian machines capable of navigation in foldspace, practically replacing Guild Navigators. The Bene Gesserit control the sandworms and their planet, now called Rakis, but the Tleilaxu have also discovered how to synthetically produce melange. This balance of power is shattered by a large influx of people from the Scattering, some fleeing persecution by an as-yet unknown enemy. Among the returning people, the Bene Gesserit finds its match in a violent and corrupt matriarchal society known as the Honored Matres, whom they suspect may be descended from some of their own sent out in the Scattering. As a bitter and bloody war erupts between the orders, it ultimately becomes clear that joining the two organizations into a single New Sisterhood with shared abilities is their best chance to fight the approaching enemy.[116][117]

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More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. 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. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an en..more
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Jun 08, 2016Evgeny rated it it was ok
Thirty five hundred years has passed since the end of the previous book. Leto II (I will just call him Leto for the sake of brevity) has been the God Emperor of the known Universe practically all this time. He is not shy about using pure despotic methods of governing when he feels like it. Unfortunately with all his infinite wisdom he forgot the most important one: a smart despot knows when to leave; the stupid one remains in power until his subjects remove his head – against his wishes obviousl..more
Jul 23, 2012Katrina rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I hated this book the first time I read it. Hated every person in it, did not understand why anyone acted the way they did. Now it's one of my top-ten comfort reads, and I see so much in Leto I want for myself.
Dune was the perfect hero book, and then Herbert turned the trope of “boy becomes Messiah and saves the noble people” on its head with Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. In those two volumes, everything assumed and trusted became so much sand, and a son had to destroy his Messiah father’s..more
Apr 24, 2018Michael Finocchiaro rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: sci-fi, fiction, american-20th-c, novels, series
[SPOILER ALERT: if you never read Children of Dune STOP NOW!]
Leto II is now the God Emperor after merging with the sandtrout and becoming a monstrous worm-man powered by melange. He rules the known universe with an iron fist - not unlike his Aunt Alya did actually - but this is of course because he is SAVING the human race from itself. He has an army of woman, the Fish Speakers, that carry out his bidding spreading terror and, still, peace across his vast domain. He has reigned for 3000+ years a..more
Jan 31, 2008Du4 rated it it was amazing
It's not until the end of this book that you begin to understand Herbert's grand plan for his series. DUNE is really about shaking man out of an evolutionary cul-de-sac, showing a frustrated civil(?) society that despite its technological and social superiority is stagnating. The inventions of the Bene Gesseritt, the Guild, the Mentats, all of these are bulwarks against the decline of man that are failing. And the only one to understand this is Leto II, God Emperor of the Known Universe. In his..more
God Emperor of Dune
Book 4 of the Dune Chronicles
By Frank Herbert
A Dune Retrospective by Eric Allen
What do you say about the book that was so completely terrible that it so turned you off of the series that you refused to read the four books that came after it for over a decade? This book is bad in a way that few things achieve. Oh, yes, there are worse things than this book in human history, and I do not mean to cheapen the horror of those atrocities, but when it comes to complete and utter fail..more
Dec 17, 2013Markus rated it it was ok · review of another edition
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“I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts. Such an accumulation of riffraff has never before been imagined.”
More than three thousand years have passed since the events described in the Great Dune Trilogy, and everything has changed. Arrakis is now a planet of running water and green growth, and the days of stillsuits and crysknives are gone. The Sandworm..more
The weakest of the original series, the fourth Dune book published in 1981 and Herbert's brilliant work begun in 1965 finally bottoms out.
Like many reviewers have said, the quality of the literature diminishes with each installment, but flashes of Herbert's brilliance shines through. I can see the influence on the Star Wars films, is Leto the inspiration for Jabba the Hutt or Anakin Skywalker or both?
I became an instant fan of Dune after the original, but after reading this one I took a long b..more
Jul 29, 2007John rated it really liked it · review of another edition
God Emperor of Dune is the red-headed stepchild of the series. Frank Herbert delves into the mind of a near omniscient god-creature. Many people feel disturbed or bored by this book, calling it the most 'dull' of the series. From a philosophical point of view, this is probably the most advanced book in the series. Definitions of humanity and morality are contrasted in very personal ways in this book. Those familiar with Lovecraftian Cthulu mythos could well use this as a textbook to start thinki..more
Aug 31, 2007Tom rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Reviews for this book have called it 'heady' and 'deep.' I cannot concur more. Few books have mastered this combination of deep material with a hurtling plot, and this is one of them.
Of the Dune Chronicles so far (this is book 4), God Emperor of Dune is my clear favorite. This profoundly philosophical installment in 'the bestselling sci-fi series of all time' explores the now-verdant world of Arrakis thirty-five hundred years after the events in Children of Dune.
Leto, the nine-year old son of P..more
God Emperor of Dune is one of those books you can measure inner growth and change by.
As a child, I hated it. I got bogged down in what I felt was a lack of story and plot. I hated the characters which I felt were very, very one dimensional and boring. I hated the protagonist, Leto II, who I thought was stuffy and pretentious.
Then, as an adult, I rediscovered it and it is now my favorite book of the Dune series (the original Dune is right behind it) and indeed one of my favorite books in the worl..more

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Jun 15, 2011Jan-Maat added it
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With this book I ran out of energy to read the Dune series any further. Reading this book drained life out of me, until I died and abandoned reading science fiction (for the second time). Nowadays of course one can just read the gist of it on Wikipeadia, but in the dim and distant past, curiosity about a story could only be satisfied by the personal turning of the pages of an entire book.
The opening I thought was great and it was interesting to see the outcomes of the Fremen's plan, outlines the..more
Nov 22, 2012Adrian Ciuleanu rated it it was amazing
Okay, this was my second read of God Emperor of Dune. Honestly, it was quite an useful read because now I understand more precisely what was Leto's goal and the exact purpose of his Golden Path. To make a long story short the Golden Path is nothing more than the survival of the human race. At the end of the old empire (period described in the previous books) the human race has become doomed beyond hope with a corrupt and decadent feudal ruling system, stagnant and with an major addiction to subs..more
Aug 24, 2008Stephen rated it it was amazing
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6.0 stars. On my list of All Time Favorite novels. The Dune series is one of the most literate and beautifully written science fiction series ever and this novel certainly continues that tradition of excellence. In fact, this may be may favorite installment of the entire series. I find I may be in the minority with that sentiment based on other reviews I have read, but I found the contemplative and cerebral nature of the story and the many expository monologues and dialogues among the characters..more
Sep 24, 2014Athena Shardbearer rated it it was ok · review of another edition
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Actual Rating: 2.5 stars
I was born Leto Atreides II more than three thousand standard years ago, measuring from the moment when I cause these words to be printed. My father was Paul Muad’Dib. My mother was his Fremen consort, Chani. My maternal grandmother was Faroula, a noted herbalist among the Fremen. My paternal grandmother was Jessica, a product of the Bene Gesserit breeding scheme in their search for a male who could share the powers of the Sisterhood’s Reverend Mot
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Dec 20, 2008Manny rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Useful background book to read if you've ever thought you might like to rule the Universe. It's a really terrible job.
Apr 16, 2012Bob R Bogle rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Having finished writing the third book of the trilogy, Children of Dune (first published in Analog, January-April 1976), Frank Herbert did not intend to revisit that imaginary universe. He had said all he wished to say about Paul Atreides and his legacy, and about the spice, and sandworms, and the Bene Gesserit, and the like. He would move on to other matters.
And so he did. The Dosadi Experiment followed hard on the heels of Children of Dune, first published in the summer of 1977. This was succe..more
Please, make it stop.
Sep 06, 2011Yasiru (reviews will soon be removed and linked to blog) rated it it was amazing
A deep and unflattering meditation on the human condition and whether near absolute tyranny can free mankind from certain of these trappings, Frank Herbert's God Emperor of Dune is my favourite novel of what is a monumental series and one of the greatest in all of science fiction.
This review offers an excellent and concise summary of what the book does for the story.
Be warned however that this novel doesn't offer a smooth silk thread of a plot where characters are affixed colourful and appreciab..more
Jul 15, 2016Keith rated it really liked it · review of another edition
God Emperor of Dune made me feel really weird while I was reading it, and this is after like a half-summer of feeling really fucking weird reading every one of these books, but seriously -- I am saying, weird. Like, the universe opens its eye and watches you watching it. That kind of weird.
One weird thing about this book, aside from the title being the most metal thing on earth, is that it is essentially one long scene. Herbert finds ways to break it up, of course, but really, it's somehow 400 p..more
After awhile I was feeling that I was back at my Philosophy classes back in High School, but hey, I can't argue against a best-selling author.
Oct 29, 2007Melee Farr rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I just finished this one and liked it almost as much as the first, which is really saying something. I have to say that Leto disgusted me at first .. gave me the willies just reading about him, kind of like squishing a snail, but by the end of the book, I felt dreadfully sorry for him, and had a reluctant respect for the lonely choices he made. I'd certainly have never made those sacrifices. I have a pile of quotes from the wise Mr. Herbert to add here ..
Mar 24, 2019Wendy, Lady Evelyn Quince rated it liked it · review of another edition
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For a book with such a great title, I sure am less than whelmed. I’m certain Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of the known universe, would chide me for my inability to fully understand the truths that he pontificates on… so just call me “stoo-pit.” That's what most of this book is: Leto pontificating and berating people for being too stupid to understand his prescient brilliance.
This is a book I can’t possibly review properly. I’ll need to re-read once or twice more to really get it. Too bad the Sc..more
Mar 31, 2019Oleksandr Zholud rated it really liked it
This is the fourth volume of Dune saga. Just like the previous three it turns the story on its head compared with the previous volume.
Leto II and Ganima, twins of Paul Arteides overcome the plots and were victorious. However, there is no ‘happily ever after’: fast forward 3500 years. Leto is the God Emperor, half-man half-worm, reigning the Imperium with iron hand to keep peace and tranquility. Instead of desert Fremen, there are fanatically loyal Fish Speakers, instead of deserts of Dune, it is..more
Mar 21, 2019Ivana Books Are Magic rated it it was amazing
I absolutely love this book. God Emperor of Dune is different from others novels in the series, and while I can understand why it might be off putting to some, for me this is the most beautiful and personal narrative in the whole series. I applaud Herbert for trying out something different and going for a book that was so heavily focused on an individual..and what an individual he is! A god who dislikes religion, because: “Religious institutions perpetuate a mortal master-servant relationship,”..more
Sep 07, 2018Ray rated it it was ok
What a tragedy, the original 1965 Dune is one of the most legendary novels of all time.
Yet the sequels leave a lot to be desired. I understand the impulse from Herbert to continue the story, I really do. Both for reasons of his own imagination, and because the fans want more of the planet Arrakis and the Atreides line. But with each sequel, it gets less interesting. They aren't so much about plot but world-building, with a new paradigm endlessly explained while little story progresses.
In this..more
Feb 22, 2016Jeraviz rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Pues hasta aquí hemos llegado.
Avanzaba por la saga de Dune cual Indiana Jones por el Templo Maldito: esperando la trampa de pinchos en cualquier momento.
Y aunque el segundo y tercer libro son continuaciones muy aceptables, en esta cuarta ocasión a Herbert ya se le va de las manos.
Los acontecimientos los sitúa 3000 años después de lo que ocurre anteriormente: ni el planeta, ni la sociedad ni los personajes son los mismos. Y prefiere centrarse en las disquisiciones filosóficas más que en la propia..more
Jul 01, 2013Marcus Bird rated it it was amazing
This is one of the best books I have ever read.
I don't say that lightly. There are so many layers to this book that work. Firstly, the idea behind accurately conveying a nigh immortal being's state of mind (a being with the memories of countless people) is no easy task, I found myself fully understanding the main character, the God emperor Leto.
Frank Herbert explores so much mental territory here, the ramifications of cloning people, sexuality and gender roles as it relates to war and peace, e..more
Jul 02, 2015Jack Pramitte rated it liked it · review of another edition
This book has changed my life. It's after I read it that I decided to become an immortal giant worm, and to travel across the whole universe to have sex with the most beautiful creatures (of every of the 17 existing sexes). Oh, and I've killed one trillion people but I swear they were annoying. What a wonderful life!
Aug 04, 2018David rated it it was ok
I loved the first three Dune books, but this one felt lackluster in comparison. It started out exciting, with the discovery of Leto II’s journals, perhaps to explain himself or his actions, and is set 3000 years after Leto II became God Emperor and enacted his Golden Path. I kept waiting for the revelation of what the Golden Path would be, or how it had turned Moneo and Siona from rebels to devotees.. (But did it really work on Siona? The ending seemed rather ambiguous on that point). I wanted..more
Jun 04, 2013Irving Karchmar rated it it was amazing
I think that God Emperor Leto II, the man who turned himself into a giant sandworm in order to save humanity, and thereby lived for 3500 years, is my favorite character in fiction, science or otherwise. Of course, a being with that long a life, and with 'other memories' going back through the entire history of mankind to the first stirrings of cellular awareness, is a remarkable achievement. His insights are lucid and insightful, and one I remember, about all armies being rape armies, is especia..more
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Frank Herbert was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author.
He is best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, dealt with themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics, and power, and is widely considered to be among the classi..more
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