Dune #4: God Emperor of Dune
Dune #4: God Emperor of Dune
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Book Four in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time
Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world’s savior, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity’s future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years.
Leto’s rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance but his morality inhuman. A rebellion, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family, has risen to oppose the despot’s rule. But Siona is unaware that Leto’s vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted—or could possibly conceive....
小說背景是在上萬年後,人類在一場慘烈的戰役中戰勝了機器人,之後宗教便立下嚴規,「汝等不得造出機器去假冒人類思維」。於是在這個沒有電腦的未來世界,有人變異出電腦的運算力,有人投入肌肉與神經的極致修練,有人發明了復活死者的技術,宗教組織則想透過育種看穿人類命運。