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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled God Emperor of Dune about Washington, DIV><B>the, Tacoma with the genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction?
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conversations.value: <DIV><B>the author</B> was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs--including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter and editor of several West Coast newspapers--before becoming a full-time writer. He died in 1986.</div>
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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book titled God Emperor of Dune about Washington, DIV><B>the, Tacoma with the genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction?
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conversations.value: God Emperor of Dune: Leto II Atreides, the God Emperor, has ruled the universe as a tyrant for 3,500 years after becoming a hybrid of human and giant sandworm in Children of Dune.\nThe death of all other sandworms, and his control of the remaining supply of the all-important drug melange, has allowed him to keep civilization under his complete command.\nLeto has been physically transformed into a worm, retaining only his human face and arms, and though he is now seemingly immortal and invulnerable to harm, he is prone to instinct-driven bouts of violence when provoked to anger.\nAs a result, his rule is one of religious awe and despotic fear.\nLeto has disbanded the Landsraad to all but a few Great Houses; the remaining powers defer to his authority, although they individually conspire against him in secret.\nThe Fremen have long since lost their identity and military power, and have been replaced as the Imperial army by the Fish Speakers, an all-female army who obey Leto without question.\nHe has rendered the human population into a state of trans-galactic stagnation; space travel is non-existent to most people in his Empire, which he has deliberately kept to near-medieval level of technological sophistication.\nAll of this he has done in accordance with a prophecy divined through precognition that will establish an enforced peace preventing humanity from destroying itself through aggressive behavior.\nThe desert planet Arrakis has been terraformed into a lush forested biosphere, except for a single section of desert retained by Leto for his Citadel.\nA string of Duncan Idaho gholas have served Leto over the millennia, and Leto has also fostered the bloodline of his twin sister Ghanima.\nHer descendant Moneo is Leto's majordomo and closest confidante, while Moneo's daughter Siona has become the leader of an Arrakis-based rebellion against Leto.\nShe steals a set of secret records from his archives, not realizing that he has allowed it.\nLeto intends to breed Siona with the latest Duncan ghola, but is aware that the ghola, moved by his own morality, may try to assassinate him before this can occur.\nThe Ixians send a new ambassador named Hwi Noree to serve Leto, and though he realizes that she has been specifically designed and trained to ensnare him, he cannot resist falling in love with her.\nShe agrees to marry him.\nLeto tests Siona by taking her out to the middle of the desert.\nAfter improperly using her stillsuit to preserve moisture, dehydration forces her to accept Leto's offer of spice essence from his body to replenish her.\nAwakened to Leto's prophecy, known as the Golden Path, the experience convinces Siona of the importance of the Golden Path.\nShe remains dedicated to Leto's destruction, and an errant rainstorm demonstrates for her his mortal vulnerability to water.\nSiona and Idaho overcome a searing mutual hatred of each other to plan an assassination.\nAs Leto's wedding procession to Tuono Village moves across a high bridge over a river, Siona orders one of her Fish Speakers to destroy the support beams with a lasgun.\nThe bridge collapses and Leto's entourage, including Hwi, plunge to their deaths into the river below.\nLeto's body rends apart in the water; the sandtrout which are part of his body encyst the water and scurry off, while the worm portion burns and disintegrates on the shore.\nA dying Leto reveals his secret breeding program among the Atreides to produce a human who is invisible to prescient vision.\nSiona is the finished result, and she and her descendants will retain this ability.\nHe explains that humanity is now free to scatter throughout the universe, never again to face complete destruction.\nAfter revealing the location of his secret spice hoard, Leto dies, leaving Duncan and Siona to face the task of managing the empire.
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conversations.value: God Emperor of Dune
  Leto scowled. Did this inept fool really expect the God Emperor to speak openly of the recent Face Dancer attack?
  Nunepi gaped. The accusation was a bold lie, completely unexpected. But Nunepi realized that if he denied it, no one would believe him. The God Emperor had said it. This was an attack of unknown dimensions. Nunepi started to speak while looking at Idaho.
  Perspiration rolled off Nunepi's face. He stared at Leto with the fixed intensity of a trapped animal. When Nunepi found his voice, it no longer was the low, controlled instrument of a diplomat, but a trembling and fearful thing.
  The guards dragged Nunepi out of the chamber as he still raged: "I am innocent! I am innocent!" The protest faded away.
  Leto chuckled. "Ahhh, Duncan, how I love your perceptiveness. You have observed that I am the ultimate alien. Do you not wonder if I also can be a loser?"
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conversations.value: God Emperor of Dune
  Leto scowled. Did this inept fool really expect the God Emperor to speak openly of the recent Face Dancer attack?
  Nunepi gaped. The accusation was a bold lie, completely unexpected. But Nunepi realized that if he denied it, no one would believe him. The God Emperor had said it. This was an attack of unknown dimensions. Nunepi started to speak while looking at Idaho.
  Perspiration rolled off Nunepi's face. He stared at Leto with the fixed intensity of a trapped animal. When Nunepi found his voice, it no longer was the low, controlled instrument of a diplomat, but a trembling and fearful thing.
  The guards dragged Nunepi out of the chamber as he still raged: "I am innocent! I am innocent!" The protest faded away.
  Leto chuckled. "Ahhh, Duncan, how I love your perceptiveness. You have observed that I am the ultimate alien.
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conversations.value: The words lay there, simmering in Moneo's awareness, a terrifying contrast to the rumblings of transformation which he sensed in his Lord.
  Again, Moneo glanced around the crypt chamber. This place was far worse than the aerie! Sanctuary was too remote.
  Trembling all through his body, Moneo shook his head dumbly. At last, he had encountered the question without answer. Failure to answer would precipitate his death. He waited for it, head bowed.
  Moneo dared to hope. He lifted his gaze to the God Emperor's face, noting that the eyes were not glazed... and the hands were not trembling. Perhaps the Worm did not come.
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conversations.value: Perhaps the Worm did not come.
  Again, Moneo glanced around the crypt chamber. This place was far worse than the aerie! Sanctuary was too remote.
  Trembling all through his body, Moneo shook his head dumbly. At last, he had encountered the question without answer. Failure to answer would precipitate his death. He waited for it, head bowed.
  Moneo dared to hope. He lifted his gaze to the God Emperor's face, noting that the eyes were not glazed... and the hands were not trembling.The words lay there, simmering in Moneo's awareness, a terrifying contrast to the rumblings of transformation which he sensed in his Lord.
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conversations.value: What is the last five paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Idaho withdrew his hand from hers, but he appeared calmer. "Weather control is increasingly unstable," he said. "Moneo thought it was the Guild's doing."
  Idaho experienced a sudden memory of the silvery shapes of sandtrout darting away from Leto's body in the river.
  Herewith the minority report. We will, of course, comply with the majority decision to apply a careful screening, editing and censorship to the journals from Dar-es-Balat, but our arguments must be heard. We recognize the interest of Holy Church in these matters and the political dangers have not escaped our notice. We share a desire with the Church that Rakis and the Holy Reservation of the Divided God not become "an attraction for gawking tourists."
  However, now that all of the journals are in our hands, authenticated and translated, the clear shape of the Atreides Design emerges. As a woman trained by the Bene Gesserit to understand the ways of our ancestors, I have a natural desire to share the pattern we have exposed—which is so much more than Dune to Arrakis to Dune, thence to Rakis.
  For the Minority, we have no doubt that historians must listen to that voice from our beginnings. If it is only the journals, we must listen. We must listen across at least as many years into our future as those journals lay hidden in our past. We will not try to predict the discoveries yet to be made within those pages. We say only that they must be made. How can we turn our backs on our most important inheritance? As the poet, Lon Bramlis, has said: "We are the fountain of surprises!"