{4.5\/5} “I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts. Such an accumulation of riffraff has never before been imagined.”<\/p>\n
God Emperor of Dune<\/strong> by Frank Herbert, published in 1981<\/p>\n Leto II has been Emperor for more than 3000 years — he is now a combination of human and worm. It’s been 3000 years of peace. But the sandworms are gone from Arrakis and the only spice is in storehouses — mostly Leto’s storehouses. Some try to rebel against Leto, including his descendant Siona. Some aspects of society have changed and some are basically the same — all part of Leto’s plan. After 3000 years, what does Leto want? A surprise. Even though it’s millenia later and society is quite different it still feels like a Dune<\/strong> book — there’s still a lot of philosophical musing and dialogue. Leto is a unique character, and there are other interesting characters here too — with some frustration here and there, I liked the book quite a bit.<\/p>\n I thought I’d read this one before but it wasn’t familiar so perhaps not.<\/p>\n