Children of Dune

Years after Paul Atreides walked into the desert, his twin children carry both his prescience and the religion built in his name. Frank Herbert's third Dune novel follows Leto II and Ghanima on an Arrakis being slowly greened by imperial ecology, where every improvement threatens the sandworms and the spice that hold the empire together. Political conspiracy, inherited memory and the machinery of prophecy drive a plot in which the most dangerous inheritance turns out to be certainty about the future. Penguin Random issues the novel as part of the continuing saga. Points worth weighing: • The third novel in Frank Herbert's Dune sequence, following Leto II and Ghanima • Ecological transformation of Arrakis and its cost to the spice cycle • Prophecy, dynastic politics and religious authority examined together • Best read after the first two books of the series For science fiction readers continuing the saga, book clubs and collectors of the series, published by Penguin Random and available from Boipoka.