But he is shaken when the Tleilaxu present him with a ghola (a re-animated human form) that looks to be his friend, and teacher, Duncan Idaho. Paul cannot see all the paths before him, though he tries to control as many as he can. But the plans are even darker than that, the Bene Gesserit, are working with the Guild, as well as a Tleilaxu Face Dancer (a gender changing human that can mimic faces) are all working together their plans hidden by the oracular abilities of the spice they partake. Paul and his Fremen wife, Chani, are struggling to have a child, but political machinations within the empire have prevented it. Published four years after Dune, Messiah is set twelve years after the events that saw Paul Atreides become Emperor, marry a princess in name only, and his Fremen launched their jihad on the galaxy. A substantially shorter novel than the first book in the series, Dune Messiah is on the Book Shelf this week.
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