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God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
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God Emperor of Dune (original 1981; edition 1981)

by Frank Herbert

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More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in Frank Herbert's 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 end unless he can breed new qualities into his species. But to achieve his final victory, Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall . . .

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Title:God Emperor of Dune
Authors:Frank Herbert
Info:New York : Putnam, c1981.
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God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (1981)

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Like many others, I have changed my mind about this book from the first time reading it in the late 1980s to over three decades later reading it a second time. In the 1980s I finished God Emperor of Dune and went … huh? what a weird book. This second read decades later I have a better appreciation of Leto as a tyrant ruler who thinks himself benevolent while morphing into something inhuman. This book is worth a close read. ( )
  Neil_Luvs_Books | Mar 2, 2024 |
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  seralv04 | Feb 14, 2024 |
Challenging book. Both its narrative and thematic elements are difficult and often times simply not compelling. Yet streaks of Frank Herberts brilliance consistently discuss Dune's best aspect: its politics, philosophy, religion and more; expanding upon the 3 great novels. Poignant, horrifying and simply baffling. Some criticisms but ultimately, the best entry thus far. ( )
  pojothepanda | Jan 22, 2024 |
This one is really wearing the Jungian BS on its sleeve. ( )
  audient_void | Jan 20, 2024 |
Messiah and Children feel like mostly preparatory reading for this one; their setup pays off and we're given the weirdest and most out there book in the series so far. Leto II's fusion with the worm and genetic memory, trying to steer the future through seemingly random manipulations makes a good fit for the mystical fusion of science and religion Herbert has been developing. The stilted dialogue and awkward characters now fit the mould he's created.
Ultimately as enjoyable and creative as this is I don't think it justifies the 1200 pages of reading beyond Dune itself. Proceed only if enthralled by the universe. ( )
  A.Godhelm | Oct 20, 2023 |
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This morning I was born in a yurt at the edge of a horse-plain in a land of a planet which no longer exists.

Tomorrow I will be born someone else in another place. I have not yet chosen. This morning, though - ahhh. this life! 

When my eyes had learned to focus, I looked out at sunshine on trampled grass and I saw vigorous people going about the sweet activities of their lives.

Where ... oh where has all of that vigor gone?

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Excerpt from the speech by Hadi Benotto announcing the discoveries at Dar-es-Balat on the planet of Rakis:

It not only is my pleasure to announce to you this morning our discovery of this marvelous storehouse containing, among other things, a monumental collection of manuscripts inscribed on ridulian crystal paper, but I also take pride in giving you our arguments for the authenticity of our discoveries, to tell you why we believe we have uncovered the original journals of Leto II, the God Emperor.
The three people running northward through moon shadows in the Forbidden Forest were strung out along almost half a kilometer.
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More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in Frank Herbert's 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 end unless he can breed new qualities into his species. But to achieve his final victory, Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall . . .

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Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world's savior, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity's future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years.

Leto's rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance but his morality inhuman. A rebellion, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family, has risen to oppose the despot's rule. But Siona is unaware that Leto's vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted--or could possibly conceive....
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