Dune Messiah

With Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming film that shall put an end to his Dune trilogy, I have been meaning to read Dune Messiah for quite a while. I was planning to read it with a friend but I was utterly forgotten and she read it without me—don’t worry we are good lol. In any case, I ended up choosing this as my last read for October given its relatively short length and that the film is coming in a bit more than a month by now. While I read the original Dune after watching the movie, this time I read the book first, and it has really managed to set my expectations quite high! Dune Messiah takes place twelve years after the first book ended, Paul started a Jihad with the Fremen, and has become the ruler of the galaxy. He is not just an Emperor, but a God for pretty much every planet he has conquered, with a new religion under his name, even if he has lost control of his own quest. He continues regardless, since this is the best outcome his prescience can conceive. After so many worlds, and…

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