More than a millennium has passed since the first events recorded in Dune. One link only survives with that epic past: Leto Atreides, God Emperor of the galaxy. He alone it is who understands the future, who know with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into the species. Yet he knows also that these new and vital forces can only prove themselves through the fateful process of his own destruction.
