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"God Emperor of Dune" by Frank Herbert Frank Herbert is probably the most famous science fiction author of all time with his best selling book series Dune. He was born on October 8, 1920 in Tacoma, Washington but unfortunately died on February 11, 1986, he was 65 years old. He was a novelist that actually lied to get his first job as a newspaper writer. Frank Herbert is knows as a deep thin ker that even took six years to write his first book "Dune." Mr. Herbert's first book made 20,000 by 1968 which was way more than most science fiction books were making in their whole lifetiime on the shelfs at that time. All in all Frank Herbert was a writer with an intuitive mind, who wrote futuristic stories that inspired other science fiction writers that came to being after him.

God Emperor of Dune is a fictional story set in the year 13,691 in which the main character is a young girl by the name of Siona who will learn more than she bargained for as her life progresses. The ruler of Dune goes by the name of Leto, he is part man and part sandworm. He is the ruler simply because he controls the melange, which is the most important thing in the world at this time. Melange is a spice that extends life and it is valuable to those in the world then as money is valuable to us now. Everyone in the world is trying to get at the spice that Leto is hoarding to himself. This is the reason that Siona is thrust into this grand adventure around Arrakis. "The three people running northward through moon shadows in the Forbidden Forest were strung out along almost half a kilometer" (Herbert 15). Leto is trying to control Siona by use of spies and thrusting her into situations to force her to do things according to his plan for her as in this quote she is getting chased by wolves sent by Leto.

Siona is always being watched by Leto through things called ixian devices and no matter where she is at he can apparently see her and that is how Leto is able to control the situations around her to mold her into what he wants. "Through my Ixian devices i watched her, wondering why i had not anticipated this venture. But Siona is... Siona. That is why i made no move to stop the wolves." (Herbert 25). Leto's main goal in this book is to force Siona into something called the "Golden path" which is what he took to become the creature that he now is. Leto works with spies and also has someone working for him called a Duncan. For most of the story the Duncan working for Leto is called Duncan Idaho, this is important because Duncan Idaho happens to be Siona's father. This is one of the reasons that Leto was forced to kill Idaho, simply because he was getting emotionally involved in what Leto was doing to Siona.

Siona is one of the co-leaders of a rebel movement to overthrow Leto and even in that rebel organization Leto has a spy named Nayla. Awkwardly, Leto has made her swear to do whatever Siona may ask of her even if she asks her to try and kill him. " Have i failed my Lord?" (Herbert 41). That is a quote made by Nayla after Siona asked her a question about if she was loyal to her or not, this shows the fear she has and the utter respect she has for Leto whom she calls her Lord. This book is a good read for anyone who enjoys science fiction and it gives a good and entertaining story in which all areas of human life are explored.