"Milennia have passed on Arrakis, and he 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. Th 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 ...
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"Milennia have passed on Arrakis, and he 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. Th 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 the Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfil a destiny she never wanted-or could possibly conceive..."--Page 4 of cover.
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Very good in Very good jacket. VGC plus. Victor Gollancz, 1984. First UK edition-fourth impression. Volume four of the Dune saga. Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of creases and small nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC plus. Nice and clean pages with a small mark on the outer edges, small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear on the Dj cover.349pp. Price clipped. A collectable book. Heavy book.
The story picks up 3,500 years later, when Leto II is reaching the end of his metamorphysis. He is the God Emperor of the universe. He hands out spice allotments to the Bene Gesserit and the other groups, at His discresion. He has transformed Arakis into a paradise planet of rivers, forests and plenty. With rebel groups tired of his tyrannical reign, the Ixians plant Hwi, but it is not her that will bring down the Great Worm. The God Emperor is not able to let go of Idaho. Over the course of these thousands of years, the ghola has been continuously provided to Leto II. Siona's test is coming. She is a new Atriedes for a new Rakis.