The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed.The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres.Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest the Bene Gesserit heirs to Dune's power.
Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune is dead.In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin.
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.
The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'dib, disappeared in the desert wastleands of Arrakis nine years ago.
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known and feared as the man christened Muad'dib.As Emperor of the known universe, he porresses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield.
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides who would become known as Muad'ib and of great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.