4.5 / 5
Year
1976
Publisher
Ace Books
ISBN
978-0441104024
Fiction
Children of Dune
by Frank Herbert
The Atreides bloodline becomes a weird experiment in long‑term systems design: religion, ecology, and empire all entangled.
Geek’s cut
Messiah narratives, ecological warfare, and political game theory on a planet made of anxiety sand. It rewards obsessive re-reading and punishes casual skimming.
Deeper dive
By now Arrakis feels like a living organism and the Atreides are just particularly self‑aware cells. Herbert zooms out to show you multi‑generational plans that make normal “5‑year plans” look like TODO comments.
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