Children of Dune

Set on the desert planet Arrakis some years after Paul Atreides became emperor, this third Dune novel follows his twin children, Leto and Ghanima, as they come of age amid a theocratic empire and a planet being terraformed out of its old dryness. Their aunt Alia rules as regent and is increasingly unstable under ancestral memory. Pretenders, a blinded preacher in the desert, and factions of Fremen, courtiers, and off-world powers contest the twins' future. Leto in particular faces a choice about whether to accept a transforming path that would lock humanity onto a single grim course in order to avert worse ones.

Bound in light brown metallic cloth printed and blocked in grey and red with a cover picture. Endpaper map by Martin Sanders. Black slipcase gilt printed with a wrap-around picture. (Signed by Clarcq issued in two tranches of 100, 18 months apart).