Sisterhood of Dune

Did You Know?

• Sisterhood of Dune debuted at #23 on The New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best-Seller List.
• Publishers Weekly called it a 'shallow but fun blend of space opera and dynastic soap opera.'
• Library Journal noted the novel's 'fully realized characters and intricate plotting.'

Plot

By the time of the novel, the Butler family, using the regal surname of Corrino, has consolidated a tenuous hold on the human-occupied universe. Emperor Salvador lives in splendor on Salusa Secundus with his brother Roderick, but their control is threatened by Manford Torondo, the popular anti-technology Butlerian leader. Torondo, deprived of both legs in a bomb blast decades earlier, leads Swordmaster Anari Idaho and millions across the Imperium to cleanse humanity of reliance on convenient technologies, often exploiting religious paranoia.

In opposition, the unscrupulous businessman Josef Venport holds a near-monopoly on space travel. Advised by his wife Cioba and great-grandmother Norma Cenva, who discovered the secret to creating space-folding Navigators, Josef plots against competitors and funds secret researchers salvaging old cymek technology to satisfy vendettas with Torondo. On Kepler, war hero Vorian Atreides attempts to keep neighbors free from slavers. He obtains Imperial protection for his planet but is sent deeper into exile by Salvador and Roderick, who fear his celebrity could incite rebellion.

On Lankiveil, the Harkonnen family ekes out a lean existence after Vorian Atreides disowned the disgraced Abulurd Harkonnen. The two oldest children, Griffin and Valya Harkonnen, seek to rebuild family fortunes through service to the Landsraad and the Sisterhood on Rossak, respectively.