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...Dune Messiah takes up the story after the end of the jihad-holy war-which has made Paul the emperor and the deity of the known universe. As his empire grew, his psychic powers have grown, until he is forced to rely on them totally. But total prescience is a trap-it removes him from his sources of strength and turns his allies into tools...
Which may be part of the reason why so many people devoured Dune when it was published...
...while reading Dune, I realized that it was more than a brilliant revival of the Empire. Herbert had invented a complete universe, as mad and beautiful, inexplicable and frightening as this one. For a few magic moments there my own life seemed like a plausible fantasy, and Dune was real. Herbert's universe was a totality which stretched far beyond the ends of sight, an incredible system which could never be understood or explained. His characters survive by flashes of insight and prophecy, and when their intuition fails, they...
...DUNE MESSIAH, which continues the story of Paul Atreides begun in Dune, will mean nothing to those who have not read its predecessor...
ALTHOUGH it may sound hard to understand, it's easy to experience. "The universe," Paul says, "is not a riddle to be solved." Herbert is not leading his readers by the hand, and those who are looking for explanations will probably get annoyed. But if you let Dune Messiah move you where it will, it can take you a long way. I was skeptical when I sat down to read the book. After all, I thought, Dune has said it all. But 50 pages into the book, I was right back there living it all, and my life seemed like...