With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert`s magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. In this, the fifth and most spectacular Dune book of all, the planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune`s children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love...