by Frank Herbert (331 pgs)
Rating 3
Paul Muad'Dib is emperor and working to avert disaster for the human species. His mistress and love, Chani, is unable to conceive. Alia becomes more and more strange. There is a conspiracy a foot. And all of it, virtually every moment of it is foreseen by the emperor Paul. What if there were blind spots though? What if they found a way to get around the prognostication problem?
Dune Messiah is a continuation of Dune. Like Dune, it improves with rereading mainly because Herbert's writing style is so dense. The culture around Paul develops into a high tech cross between ancient Egyptian and Imperial Britain which is an interesting flavor. The story picks up very quickly after the end of Dune. There are a number of somewhat cynical religious themes and and great deal of character development.
Recommended if you liked Dune, if you didn't, you certainly won't see this one as an improvement.
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