The war against the machines rages on—but so does humanity’s evolution.
More than two decades after The Butlerian Jihad, Serena Butler’s crusade drags forward in blood-soaked cycles of victory and loss. The cymeks, desperate to reclaim their dominance, conspire from the shadows while Omnius expands his reach.
On distant fronts, new legends are being forged. Jool Noret and the fighters of Ginaz become a warrior elite. Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva edge closer to a breakthrough that will change everything: instantaneous travel across space. And on the harsh sands of Arrakis, a rebel named Selim Wormrider rides the desert and builds a future that will echo for millennia.
This is not just a war. It’s the birth of civilization as the Dune universe knows it.
