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Dune Messiah
Book 1 of Dune
- 279 pages · about 5 hours
- First published 1965
- 101 editions
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1 About this book
Paul Atreides has ruled as Emperor for twelve years. The Fremen, who follow him as their messiah, have carried a holy war across most of the known universe in his name, and he is powerless to stop the excesses of the religion he created; his visions of the future show him that the alternatives are worse. Now the Bene Gesserit, the Spacing Guild and the Tleilaxu join in a conspiracy to remove him from the throne. Dune Messiah, published in 1969, is the second novel in Frank Herbert's Dune series.
- Science fiction
- Dune (Imaginary place)
- Imaginary places
2 What to expect
The second Dune novel, set twelve years after the first: Paul Atreides is emperor and the center of a religion that has cost billions of lives, and a conspiracy gathers against him. It is a short, brooding book of palace intrigue and long conversations, with little action, and it deliberately undoes the heroic story of Dune. It is about the trap of power and of foreseeing the future, and it needs the first book.
Good for readers who want: thoughtful science fiction, the dark side of a hero, and political intrigue.
3 About Frank Herbert
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Frank Herbert
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