The Dune Chronicles, one of the most important SF series ever written, comes to an end with the Second Great Dune Trilogy, which includes God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapter House Dune. The desert planet Arrakis serves as the setting for Herbert's vivid, epic novels. It is the centre of a complicated political and military conflict with implications for the entire galaxy. Since the first incidents described in Dune, more than three thousand years have passed. The monstrous image of Leto Atreides, the prophet Paul Muad'Dib's son and the practically immortal God Emperor of Dune, is the last remnant of those turbulent days. He alone is capable of foreseeing the future, and he is quite certain that, barring the development of new traits, his race's growth is over.