He has created a story that contains elements of both fantasy and classical science fiction on the grand cosmic scale, while maintaining a vivid sense of reality - staying true to the human realities of space travel, incorporating new facts gleaned from the 1979 Voyager space probes, and making believable scientific projections based on those facts.Īt the conclusion of ''2001: A Space Odyssey,'' published in 1968, Clarke leaves astronaut David Bowman (reborn with the help of a large black monolith) floating above Earth, wondering what to do with his newfound powers over space and time.Meanwhile Hal, the self-conscious computer gone dangerously schizophrenic, circles a moon of Saturn in the spaceship Discovery. Clarke has accomplished what few modern science fiction authors seem to be able to do. The planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying.In ''2010: Odyssey Two'' Arthur C. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin.

Heretics of Dune - Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead.

To preserve humanity’s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years. Leto Atreides, the son of the world’s savior, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, is still alive but far from human.

God Emperor of Dune - Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life.

Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities-making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides.

The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago.

Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne-and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence.

As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known-and feared-as the man christened Muad’Dib.This set includes: Dune Dune Messiah Children of Dune God Emperor of Dune Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse Dune.

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