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Dune Messiah Summary & Study Guide Description
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Dune Messiah Plot Summary
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Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert continues the cosmic drama of Dune, taking up the action in the frustrating twelfth year of the Emperor Paul Atreides' reign. It follows a treasonous plot that fails to overthrow him but leaves him blind physically and psychically, walking off into the desert and timeless immortality as the "Muad'dib."
Dune Messiah opens with a band of conspirators plotting against the Emperor Paul Atreides in the twelfth year of his reign. The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, a Tleilaxu Face Dancer named Scytale, and a Guild Steersman named Edric labor to win over Paul's wife, the Princess Irulan, from whom the Emperor withholds a child in favor of his beloved Fremen concubine, Chani. At stake is preservation of a gene pool the Bene Gesserit sisterhood has long cultivated.
Scytale takes on the guise of Paul's long-dead friend, Duncan Idaho, to pump a veteran for information about...
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