children of dune
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Dune traces the rise of Paul Muad’Dib, a young nobleman in an interstellar feudal empire who takes control of the single critical resource in the universe (the clairvoyance and lifespan-enhancing drug called mélange or spice). As the first book closes, Muad-Dib has triumphed. His scheming, evil enemies are dead or overthrown; Muad’Dib is set to take the reins of power and bring a hard but enlightened peace to the universe.
But Herbert chose in the books that followed to undermine Paul’s triumph with a string of failures and philosophical paradoxes; Dune was a heroic melody, and Dune Messiah was its inversion. When the second novel, Dune Messiah, opens, Muad’Dib’s religion has sent his fanatical soldiers on an interstellar religious rampage, leaving billions dead (Muad’Dib at one point compares his doings to those of Hitler and Genghis Khan). His vision of peace is being corrupted by dogmatic religious bureaucrats, and his once-noble desert tribes, the Fremen, are fat and wealthy on the spoils of war and the de-desertification of Dune.
When Children of Dune picks up the tale, Muad’Dib has become an old man damaged by forced overdoses of spice-essence and dependent on an assistant; he is rousing the populace against the priestly apparatus and its ruler - Alia, Muad’Dib’s sister, who has since lost the battle with the memory-personalities she contains, and is possessed by the persona of the evil Baron Harkonnen. Over and over, Herbert shows how his characters' triumphs contain the seeds of their own destruction, and how their personalities and ideals keep them on the track of destruction, even if prescient vision proves to them how they are doomed.
Frank Herbert said later in life that he conceived all three of the first Dune books as a single story from the start, and that he simply produced that one complete tale in three separate volumes. None of the sequels ever matched the original in sales or influence, and none tackled quite so epic global political events. Instead, Herbert used the compelling world he had created as the backdrop for increasingly cryptic meditations on ecology, politics, and power.
