The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared into the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities -- making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of the House Atreides. Facing treason and rebellion on two fronts, Alia's rule is not absolute. The displaced house Corrino is plotting...

Fifteen thousand years after Leto II's death, the remnants of the Bene Gesserit contend with the ruthless leaders of an alien culture to forge a new civilization and preserve the best of the Old Empire.

Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the 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. To 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...

A tale following the events of "Chapterhouse: Dune" finds a ship of escaped refugees using genetic technology to revive talented figures from the world's past in order to safeguard their survival, including Paul Maud'Dib and Lady Jessica.

Mentat School founder Gilbertus Albans makes uneasy compromises to survive the Butlerian fanatics while ambitious student Valya Harkonnen plots revenge on a hero she blames for her family's downfall.

The human world hopes for an end to its conflict with the thinking machines, but when virulent plagues are unleased throughout the galaxy, the war's outcome becomes dependent on an apocalyptic battle...

Continuing the events leading up to Frank Herbert's immortal saga "Dune, " the exciting conclusion to this trilogy finds the cruel Tleilaxu overlords on Ix manufacturing a synthetic form of amal to supplant the spice from Dune. If amal is accepted, Emperor Shaddam IV will gain absolute power. But if the plot of the Imperial House Corrino succeeds, the result may be the end of civilization itself.

A finale to the trilogy set 10,000 years before Frank Herbert's classic continues the origins stories of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the human-computer Mentats and the Spacing Guild Navigators as well as the battle for the future of the human race.

"Set in the years leading up to explosive events in Frank Herbert's Dune, this prequel series transports readers to the far future on the desert planet Arrakis where Pardot Kynes seeks its secrets; a violent coup is planned by the emperor's son; eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho seeks to escape his cruel masters; and a young man named Leto Atreides begins a fateful journey"--

A prequel to Frank Herbert's science fiction classic, "Dune," that takes readers back ten thousand years, chronicling the war in which humans won their freedom from their "thinking machine" masters and showing how the houses of Atreides and Harkonnen became mortal enemies.