God Emperor of Dune

Dune: God Emperor of Dune, the fourth book in Frank Herbert’s bestselling science fiction series The Dune Chronicles, and the best-selling science fiction novel of all time, chronicles humanity’s transformation and demise more than three thousand years after its first appearance on Arrakis, or Dune— a desert planet largely covered in sand. In this book, Paul Atreides’ son Leto takes his place as emperor after sacrificing both his humanity and life to merge with sandworm wildlife native to Arrakis. As a result of this metamorphosis, Leto is able to take on the title God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years, leading what remains of the human race with an iron fist. However, his rule is not one rife with mercy. Leto has become far too inhuman to be merciful. He will kill anyone who stands in his way—even those who are members of his own family. It is Siona Atreides, niece to Paul Atreides and Leto’s heir presumptive, who leads a formidable rebellion against God-Emperor Leto’s despotic rule but fails to realize that she is linked to him by fate.