Frank Herbert

God Emperor of Dune is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert published in 1981, the fourth in Frank Herbert's Dune series of six novels.

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Frank Herbert wrote Dune, one of the seminal works of science fiction and 1966 Hugo award winner, in 1965, and the subsequent five books in the series (in order: Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse Dune).

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In God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert analyzes the cyclical patterns of human society, as well as humanity's evolutionary drives.

as well as humanity's evolutionary drives of human society

In God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert analyzes the cyclical patterns of human society, as well as humanity's evolutionary drives.

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God Emperor of Dune is the third sequel to Dune.

a hugely successful novel by Herbert

Dune is a hugely successful novel by Herbert and tells the story of Paul Atreides, the eldest son of a wealthy family who assume control of the planet Arrakis.

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The vast majority of this text was written by game designer Brian Reynolds himself, and game designer Brian Reynolds succeeded in channeling Frank Herbert's Dune, constructing the idea of an entire universe with a few choice epigrams juxtaposed against the main action of the story.

Ralph Malph

Yet I've got to admit that this one passed under my radar every bit as much as the spectacular 1981 Saturday Night Live flameout of funnyman-cum-suicide Charles Rocket and the entire runs of Golden Girls, Who's The Boss?, and the last 20 years of Happy Days (when the gang ran a dude ranch on the 3rd moon of Jupiter, Joanie and Chachi toured the heavens as an intergalactic version of Ike and Tina Turner, and Ralph Malph was named God-Emperor of Dune).

by McNelly and

The Dune Encyclopedia, written by McNelly and 42[1] other contributors as a companion to the Dune series, was published in paperback in 1984.[2]

Paul Atreides

Taking place 35,000 years after Paul Atreides becomes Emperor, God Emperor of Dune was published in 1981.

Arrakis's son Brian and author Kevin J. Anderson

Since Herbert’s death, Arrakis's son Brian and author Kevin J. Anderson have continued the series, and there are now more than 20 Dune novels, plus additional tie-in books and short stories.