Children of Dune Rating: 4 planets
by Frank Herbert  
#3 in the Dune series  
pub. 1976  
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Paul's mother Jessica returns to Dune where the twins, Leto and Ghanima, are now 9 and the object of an assassination plot. Alia, who is Regent, is possessed by her grandfather, the Baron Harkonnnen.

Dune is turning green.

The Preacher, who might be Paul returned from the desert, appears.Leto disappears into the desert and Ghanima convinces all, including herself, that he is dead. Leto is taken prisoner by the Fremen and educated in their ways.
Leto metamorphoses into the Shai-Halud, the great sandworm deity.


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Children of Dune became the first hardcover best seller in science fiction.

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Atom Bullet Children of Dune, a miniseries based on Dune Messiah and Children of Dune, aired on the SciFi Channel in 2003.

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