Children of Dune
by Frank Herbert
Our Price: $59.76
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $29.99 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Frank HerbertEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-03
ISBN: 0441015905
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
Book Reviews of Children of Dune
Book Review: Even better than Dune Messiah!
Summary: 5 Stars
After writing a sci-fi novel on the order of Dune, it was understandably tough to follow it up with anything that would come close in Dune Messiah. While it wasn't a bad book at all, Dune Messiah? Even better. Continuing from Dune Messiah, the theme is a dark one as the Atreides twins are essentially orphans after Paul's final descent into the Arrakeen Desert and Chani's death in childbirth.
The twins hold the key to the Atreides Empire and throughout the book are plotted against, subject to manipulation, and trying to figure out how to stay a step ahead of their foes. House Corrino, the former displaced Emperor Shaddam's Great House, is looking for a return to power on Arrakis and intends to do away with the twins to get this measure accomplished by putting the Emperors grandson Farad'n on the throne.
Readers of the Dune Series up to this point will thoroughly enjoy this book as more than a few familiar faces from the Atreides household come back, including an awesome surprise from a mysterious character that preaches against Paul's empire. Who is this strange character known as The Preacher and why is he doing this?
Overall, Children of Dune takes many twists and turns as the unstable Aunt Alia of the twins becomes more and more like the Abomination that the Bene Gesserit sisterhood predicted as she succumbs to being taken over by the spirit of a past family member and becomes more and more tyrannical over the Dune Empire that Paul worked so hard to build.
The Empire is unstable on Dune, as the religious government that Paul setup is being constantly abused and tightened by Alia. The twins know that a change is in order, the question is what sacrifices will they both have to make to ensure humanities survival not only on Dune, but throughout the galaxy?
Summary of Children of Dune
The science fiction masterpiece continues in the ?major event,?( Los Angeles Times) Children of Dune.With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert?s Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination and one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.
The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad?Dib, disappeared in the deserts of Arrakis. Like their father, they possess supernormal abilities?making them valuable to their aunt Alia, who rules the Empire. If Alia can obtain the secrets of the twins? prophetic visions, her rule will be absolute. But the twins have their own plans for their destiny.
Literature & Fiction Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Literature & Fiction Books
Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott
Scribner; Published: 1986-06-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.49
Price in other shops:
The Killing Groundby JACK HIGGINS
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS LTD; Published: 2007; Hardcover; Book
Saving Fish from Drowningby Amy Tan
4th Estate; Published: 2005; Paperback; Book
Life Expectancyby Dean Koontz
Harpercollins Pb; Published: 2005-08-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.00
Constant Princessby Philippa Gregory
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster; Published: 2005; Hardcover; Book
Wolf of the Plains (Conqueror, Book 1)by Conn Iggulden
Harper; Published: 2007; Paperback; Book
Saharaby Clive Cussler
Harper Collins Pb; Published: 2005-03-21; Paperback; Book
Perelandra (Cosmic Trilogy)by C. S. Lewis
Voyager; Published: 2005-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.70
Price in other shops:
The Lord Of The Rings: Part 2 The Two Towersby J. R. R. Tolkien
Harper Collins Publishers; Published: 2001; Paperback; Book
Red Marsby Kim Stanley Robinson
Trafalgar Square; Published: 2001-06; Paperback; Book
Similar Books and other products
Sisterhood of Duneby Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
Tor Books; Published: 2012-01-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.05
Price in other shops:
Hunters of Duneby Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
Tor Books; Published: 2006-08-22; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $10.56
Price in other shops:
The Butlerian Jihad (Legends of Dune #1)by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
Tor Books; Published: 2002-10-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops:
Paul of Duneby Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
Tor Books; Published: 2008-09-16; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.40
Price in other shops:
The Winds of Dune (Heroes of Dune #2)by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
Tor Books; Published: 2009-08-04; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $6.44
Price in other shops:
Duneby Frank Herbert
Ace Hardcover; Published: 1999-10-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $16.04
Price in other shops:
Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune Chronicles)by Frank Herbert
Ace Hardcover; Published: 2009-08-04; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $44.25
Heretics of Dune (Dune Chronicles)by Frank Herbert
Ace Hardcover; Published: 2009-02-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.60
Price in other shops:
God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles)by Frank Herbert
Ace Hardcover; Published: 2008-09-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.49
Price in other shops:
Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles)by Frank Herbert
Ace Hardcover; Published: 2008-02-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $13.40
Price in other shops: