God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert, Simon Vance, Scott Brick, and Katherine Kellgren

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God Emperor of Dune
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Updated on 12-28-2008.

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Audio CD

Publisher: Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition (June 24, 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1427203156

ISBN-13: 978-1427203151

Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 5.1 x 1.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces ()

Review

Praise for the Dune audiobook—The First Installment in the New Multi-Cast Recordings of the Six Original DUNE novels:
“How does Herbert’s text come off when read aloud? Superbly!...The listener falls under the mellow sway of these talented voices. The production values here are top-notch. The sound is crystalline...But perhaps the most impressive thing about this production is the way all the neologisms and foreign terms sound so natural and flow so easily—and consistently—off the tongues of the performers.” —SciFi Weekly
Praise for the Dune series:
“One of the monuments of modern science fiction.”
—Chicago Tribune on Dune“Brilliant...It is all that Dune was and maybe a little more.”
—Galaxy Magazine

Product Description

More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in 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 . . .

Reader Reviews
This review is from: God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 4) (Paperback) Leto Atreides must be the loneliest person in the world, though he is an Emperor and worshipped as a god. And why a god? Because he is unique and practically, though not really, immortal. At the end of Children of Dune, (Book 3) Leto makes a terrible choice and covers himself with sandtrout, the spawn of the mighty Shai-hulud, the sandworm. This causes a transformation and we meet him, mostly Worm, all too human, in the fourth book. The characters are very well drawn, as you'd expect from Herbert. In particular, Duncan Idaho, returned as the eternal clone or ghola, has a large role. Leto, bigger than life, still retains the human tragic-hero quality, similar to that of his father Paul-Muad'Dib. He has created an army of women, the Fish Speakers, to enforce his law throughout the galaxy. There is peace, but at what price? Despite the peace, Leto has powerful enemies, and he knows it. Some are enemies he has deliberately created. Why? The end of the story has all the qualities of a legend or great tragedy, though Leto's legacy is that men can survive an uncertain future. This is a fine book and better than the second and third of the Dune series, and in fact, quite unique.

God Emperor of Dune
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Updated on 12-28-2008.