God Emperor of Dune

, #4

Paperback, 423 pages

English language

Published Nov. 15, 1984 by Berkley.

ISBN:
978-0-425-08003-0
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1 star (1 review)

With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent DUNE books stand among the major achievements of the imagination. The world has waited more than five years for this, the fourth, the greatest and the grandest DUNE book of all. Centuries have passed on Dune itself, and the planet is green with life. Leto, the son of Dune's savior, is still alive but far from human, and the fate of all humanity hangs on his awesome sacrifice.

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As always, I like Herbert’s descriptions of worlds… but this book was claustrophobic and odd. Some explanation, any explanation, of the golden path as being anything other than avoiding some other unnamed “big bad” would have made it more tolerable. Usually Herbert pulls off some plot twist at the end that renders the whole thing as masterful but when one of the female characters had an orgasm when Duncan threw the rope down towards her from the top of a wall… I knew then I wasn’t going to get anything that made any sense. I liked the concept of Duncans as time travellers of a sort, and of having a community as a mind, and what 3500 years of time might look like; but the approach to women, and sex, and horrors homosexuality was so odd. Not sure about approaching the next in the series… could it get any weirder???

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  • Science Fiction