God Emperor of Dune

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By Frank Herbert

Three and a half thousand years after the first three books, Leto II still rules. He gave up his humanity to merge with the sandtrout and is now something between a man and a worm, immortal, enormous, and the only thing holding human history on the course he calls the Golden Path.

His empire is peaceful because he permits nothing else, and this book is largely his own account of why a tyranny lasting millennia was the kinder option. The fourth Dune novel.

First published 1981