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Dune: The Machine Crusade, the second book in Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Legends of Dune trilogy, picks up roughly 20 years after the events of Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. As the war between Serena Butler's Jihad and the thinking robots stretches on into its second decade, separate groups from distant corners of the galaxy devise new plots to defeat the demon machines -- and change history forever.
After years of war and millions of human deaths, Serena Butler's forces have made only slight gains. Heroes like Vorian Atreides and Xavier Harkonnen have fought valiantly against the never-ending waves of killing machines, but it isn't enough -- something drastic must be done or the human race will inevitably be slaughtered into extinction. Iblis Ginjo, the self-proclaimed Grand Patriarch of the Jihad, receives an undeserved miracle when a free Titan (an ancient machine with a human brain) joins forces with the Jihad. But is it a miracle or just another machine plot?
And on the remote desert planet of Arrakis, an exiled visionary named Selim Wormrider and a small band of outlaws begin to create a disciplined new culture in the desert -- one whose focus is to protect the planet's natural treasures from greedy offworlders and whose religion revolves around the giant sandworms and the rare addictive melange (a spice that will in the near future change the entire power structure of the galaxy).
The Machine Crusade is a must-read for any Dune fan. Like spice from the desert planet Arrakis, this novel was absolutely addictive. Paul Goat Allen