Dune Messiah Summary
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Dune Messiah Summary

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...

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Frank Herbert Biographies (3)

Frank Herbert

6,524 words, approx. 22 pages

Biography EssayBorn in Tacoma, Washington, Frank Patrick Herbert is best known as the author of the Dune series. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle (1946-1947), where he later lecture... Read more

Frank Herbert

5,366 words, approx. 18 pages

Paul Atreides, the young renegade Duke, and his mother, Jessica, were fleeing across the desert when they got their first good look at a maker. "Where the dunes began ... a silver-gray curve broached ... Read more

Frank (Patrick) Herbert

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Born in Tacoma, Washington, Frank Herbert is best known as the author of the Dune series. He worked for many years as a journalist for West Coast newspapers from San Francisco to Seattle and at a wide... Read more