God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
Arrakis, a once-desert world, is now green with life after millennia. The world’s saviour, Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, son Leto Atreides, is still living but not at all human. He gave up nearly immortality as the God Emperor of Dune for the past 35 centuries by merging with a sandworm in order to save humanity’s future.
The reign of Leto is not a kind one. His transformation has rendered him inhuman in both appearance and morality. A rebellion against the despot’s authority has arisen, and Siona, an Atreides family member, is leading it. Siona isn’t conscious that in order for humanity to follow Leto’s vision of a Golden Path, she must fulfil a destiny she neither desired nor could have imagined.
God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
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3,500 years after the events of “Children of Dune,” Frank Herbert’s “God Emperor of Dune” takes up with Leto II Atreides now ruling the Empire as its God Emperor. He is a huge human-sandworm hybrid. He endured the physical change in order to establish a time of enforced peace that would protect humanity and channel its worst tendencies. In addition, he assumed authority over the Bene Gesserit breeding program, overseeing the various offspring of his sister Ghanima Atreides and Farad’n Corrino (Harq al-Ada). Additionally, ecological changes have made Dune a lush planet with only a tiny portion designated as desert. Leto manages the different factions within the Empire by carefully distributing spice from his personal hoard in the absence of the worms.
Leto shares his father Paul Muad’Dib Atreides’ ability to see into the future, and he says of those who try to influence it, “Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which in reality never existed” (pg. 380). The only “Fremen” left in the future are those who try to replicate the ancient people’s rituals without understanding their significance or context. Leto adds, “These Fremen don’t realize how much of their lives have been lost. They believe they have preserved the core of traditional methods. All institutions have failed in this regard. Something disappears from the displays after fading and drying out…
