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The last of the classic Dune series written by Frank Herbert, though supposedly another book will be written by Herbert's son and a collaborator named Kevin Anderson will be published at some point in the future.
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The Bene Gesserit's situation is far worse than what they had suffered under the Tyrant Leto II. The Honoured Matres - a violent offshoot of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood - have destroyed Arrakis, or Dune, searing all life from the desert planet. Sweeping across the galaxy, they relentlessly hunt down and destroy every Bene Gesserit stronghold they can find, always searching for Chapterhouse, the most powerful of all Bene Gesserit worlds.
Meanwhile, the Sisterhood, led by Mother Superior Odrade, slowly transforms the green planet into a scorching desert in order to grow melange, the psychotropic spice they need for their existence.
Though billions of sisters have died on worlds the Honoured Matres control, Odrande has a plan for the Bene Gesserit's ultimate survival. One weapon in her arsenal is the wormrider Sheeana, an Atreides descendant whom Odrande is secretly grooming as the sacred heart of a religious cult - and who may be the key to controllong the desert ecology of Chapterhouse. Another is the ghola-child, or clone, of the military mastermind Miles Teg, who demonstrates the uncanny speed of the Honoured Matres themselves.
Most valuable of all may be the captive Honoured Matre Murbella. During the Scattering of humanity through the galaxy, the dark sisterhood learned the secret of sexual addiction. Odrade has used the technique to bond Murbella to the ghola of Duncan Idaho, whose suspected Mentat abilities would make him another Kwizatz haderach, as dangerously uncontrollable as Paul Muad'Dib.
But the Bene Gesserit are running out of time, for the enemy is drawing closer, and a supreme sacrifice must be made...
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Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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