The new novel in the international bestselling Dune series
The sequel to Sisterhood of Dune... The thinking machines have been defeated but the struggle for humanity’s future continues.
Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn
the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an
uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to
survive the Butlerian fanatics, led by the madman Manford Torondo and
his Swordmaster Anari Idaho. Mother Superior Raquella attempts to
rebuild her Sisterhood School on Wallach IX, with her most talented and
ambitious student, Valya Harkonnen, who also has another goal — to exact
revenge on Vorian Atreides, the legendary hero of the Jihad, whom she
blames for her family’s downfall.
Meanwhile, Josef Venport
conducts his own war against the Butlerians. VenHold Spacing Fleet
controls nearly all commerce thanks to the superior mutated Navigators
that Venport has created, and he places a ruthless embargo on any planet that accepts Manford Torondo’s anti-technology pledge, hoping to starve them into submission. But fanatics rarely surrender easily...
The Mentats, the Navigators, and the Sisterhood all strive to improve the
human race, but each group knows that as Butlerian fanaticism grows
stronger, the battle will be to choose the path of humanity’s
future — whether to embrace civilization, or to plunge into an endless
dark age.
