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‘Dune: science fiction’s answer to The Lord of the Rings’ Guardian

‘A sweeping work of science-fiction that helped define the genre and bring it to the mainstream’ Independent

Children of Dune is an awe-inspiring world, and a story of truly epic scope.

The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet’s economy.

Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides’s twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions – but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens …

Why not read the whole series in order:

Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse Dune

Publisher Review

A sweeping work of science-fiction that helped define the genre and bring it to the mainstream * Independent * I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings * Arthur C. Clarke on Dune * It is possible that Dune is even more relevant now than when it was first published * The New Yorker on Dune * An astonishing science fiction phenomenon * The Washington Post on Dune * One of the monuments of modern science fiction * The Chicago Tribune on Dune * Powerful, convincing, and most ingenious * Robert A. Heinlein on Dune * A novel of extraordinary complexity ... the work of a speculative intellect with few rivals in modern SF * The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction on Dune * A tight mesmerising fabric, interwoven with a potent element of mysticism ... intensely realised * Brian W. Aldiss on Dune * Dune: science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings * Guardian *