The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! This second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. DUNE MESSIAH picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men. But the question is: Do all paths of glory lead to the grave?
"Brilliant . . . It is all that DUNE was, and maybe a little more." (Galaxy Magazine)
Arrakis, the desert planet called Dune, has been the site of a terrible war and the source of a merciless holy crusade that swept the Galaxy All this has been the result of the ascension to absolute power of the man known as Muad'dib.
The unforgettable human drama at the center of the vast natural and political forces coming to bear on this unique planet is among the most moving in all of the
literature of imagination. DUNE MESSIAH is the story of a man of overawing wisdom who finds himself subject to human#and more than human#frailties. It is a novel of high adventure and of philosophical and emotional depth. Martin Roell (Hungary) (2009/11/04): I did not enjoy this as much as I did the first book, and I can imagine some people being disappointed with this: It is much shorter, somewhat "dryer", with a lot of conspiracy and diplomacy and less action than the first book. Still, I enjoyed it a lot. Some themes started in the first book, especially prescience, are deepened and the development of the plot is very, very interesting.
