This article is about the novel. For the TV miniseries of the same name, see Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.
Children of Dune
US first edition cover
Author
Frank Herbert
Audio read by
Scott Brick Simon Vance
Cover artist
Vincent Di Fate
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Dune series
Genre
Science fiction
Published
April 1976
Publisher
Putnam
Media type
Print (hardcover & paperback)
Pages
444
ISBN
0-399-11697-4
OCLC
1975222
Dewey Decimal
813/.5/4
LC Class
PZ4.H5356 Ch3 PS3558.E63
Preceded by
Dune Messiah
Followed by
God Emperor of Dune
Children of Dune is a 1976 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the third in his Dune series of six novels. It was originally serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1976, and was the last Dune novel to be serialized before book publication.
At the end of Dune Messiah, Paul Atreides walks into the desert, a blind man, leaving his twin children Leto and Ghanima in the care of the Fremen, while his sister Alia rules the universe as regent. Awakened in the womb by the spice, the children are the heirs to Paul's prescient vision of the fate of the universe, a role that Alia desperately craves. House Corrino schemes to return to the throne, while the Bene Gesserit make common cause with the Tleilaxu and Spacing Guild to gain control of the spice and the children of Paul Atreides.
Initially selling over 75,000 copies, it became the first hardcover best-seller ever in the science fiction field. The novel was critically well-received for its plot, action, and atmosphere, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1977. Dune Messiah (1969) and Children of Dune were collectively adapted by the Sci-Fi Channel in 2003 into a miniseries titled Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.
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