God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1983 • Berkley

God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert [DUNE IV]

FIRST MASS MARKET PAPERBACK PRINTING [1983] ACE SCIENCE FICTION

1st mass market printing w/ metallic embossed cover fonts.

Book is in excellent condition.   Reads like new with some mild wear to cover.

Book four in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.

Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world's savior, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, is still alive but far from human. 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's rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance but his morality inhuman. A rebellion, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family, has risen to oppose the despot's rule. But Siona is unaware that Leto's vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted--or could possibly conceive....