The sands of Arrakis are shifting, but not in the way the Fremen of old once predicted. Nine years after the disappearance of Paul Muad'Dib into the deep desert, the ecological transformation of the planet is well underway. Greenery now dots the landscape where only dunes once shifted, yet this long-awaited paradise brings with it a terrifying cost: the gradual destruction of the giant sandworms and the spice melange they produce. The Atreides Empire, now a vast religious bureaucracy, finds itself trapped between the environmental dream of a fertile world and the economic reality of a universe that depends entirely on the desert’s most precious resource.

At the center of this storm are Leto II and Ghanima Atreides, Paul’s twin heirs. Though children in body, they are "Pre-born," possessin...

The sands of Arrakis are shifting, but not in the way the Fremen of old once predicted. Nine years after the disappearance of Paul Muad'Dib into the deep desert, the ecological transformation of the planet is well underway. Greenery now dots the landscape where only dunes once shifted, yet this long-awaited paradise brings with it a terrifying cost: the gradual destruction of the giant sandworms and the spice melange they produce. The Atreides Empire, now a vast religious bureaucracy, finds itself trapped between the environmental dream of a fertile world and the economic reality of a universe that depends entirely on the desert’s most precious resource.

At the center of this storm are Leto II and Ghanima Atreides, Paul’s twin heirs. Though children in body, they are "Pre-born," possessin...