With Arrakis destroyed, the Bene Gesserit work from a hidden world to reproduce the desert conditions that once made the spice, while the Honoured Matres close in on them.
Frank Herbert's sixth and final Dune novel concentrates on the order's internal politics, on breeding and inherited memory, and on survival against an adversary that answers force with greater force. Long conversations carry as much weight as action, and the book closes the sequence as the author himself completed it.
Where this fits in the series:
• The sixth and last Dune novel written by Frank Herbert
• The Bene Gesserit placed at the centre of the narrative
• Political manoeuvre and philosophy given more room than combat
• Continues directly from the events of the preceding book
For readers working through the Dune Chronicles and collectors of classic science fiction, available in English at Boipoka.