God emperor of dune pages5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But set against this, we really get a feel for the challenges faced by Leto and his need for surprise having mostly lived within the strictures of prescience. As always with Herbert you get rather more cod-philosophy and metaphysical musings than are desirable - and its hard to understand the justification for the museum Fremen. ![]() Yet it's to Herbert's credit that with such an apparently unlovable central character and this disjoint from our old familiar characters, it doesn't take long before the reader is immersed. The action is set more than 2,000 years after the previous book. Although not quite as effective as Dune itself, Herbert here manages the near impossible of taking a no-longer-human character in the apparently monstrous part-human, part-sandworm Leto and making him both interesting and sympathetic.įor a few pages, the reader suffers a significant disconnect. ![]() Frank Herbert exceeded expectations with God Emperor of Dune, which managed to capture some of the scope and power of the original. The fourth book in a series is a test for any author, especially at the time this was written (the 1980s), when trilogies were frequently the limit. ![]()
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