Children of Dune: Book Three in the Dune Chronicles

Frank Herbert

Feb 2008 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Simon Vance and Scott Brick

About this audiobook

Frank Herbert's bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, the sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy. Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions—but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens...

Ratings and reviews

The audiobook is very well read and produced; not to mention what a masterpiece Children of Dune as a whole is. There are a few skips in the tape they digitized to make this audiobook, but they are brief and only present in a few chapters in the latter half of the audiobook. I whole heartedly recommend it in spite of that fact.

It's a good story. Not my favorite of the Dune series, but a good one. Reader has an amazing gentle british-sounding voice with impressive character voices. Noticed an error in the audio at Chapter 51 timestamp 3:31-3:34, Pg 476 where the text skips at the part that goes "This wasn't any Bene Gesserit;...posessed," Halleck said. "Abomination."" and then again at timestamp 3:43-3:45 of the same chapter. You only miss a paragraph, but still an error.

Where's the fourth book??? Oi, Macmillan publishers! I see you have it on your website... What's going on??? Please don't make me have to buy it on a platform I don't use just because Gplay is missing 1/6th of the story 😭

About the author

Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington, and studied at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide-variety of jobs—including newspaper reporter and editor, political speechwriter, university professor, TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, and creative writing teacher—before becoming a full-time writer. His first sf story was published in 1952 but he achieved fame more than ten years later with the publication in Analog of "Dune World" and "The Prophet of Dune" that were amalgamated in the novel Dune in 1965.

Scott Brick first began narrating audiobooks in 2000, and after recording almost 400 titles in five years, AudioFile magazine named Brick a Golden Voice and "one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy." He has read a number of titles in Frank Herbert's bestselling Dune series, and he won the 2003 Science Fiction Audie Award for Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. Brick has narrated for many popular authors, including Michael Pollan, Joseph Finder, Tom Clancy, and Ayn Rand. He has also won over 40 AudioFile Earphones Awards and the AudioFile award for Best Voice in Mystery and Suspense 2011. In 2007, Brick was named Publishers Weekly's Narrator of the Year.
Simon Vance is the critically acclaimed narrator of approximately 400 audiobooks, winner of forty-one AudioFile Earphones Awards, and a six-time Audie recipient. He was the winner of the 2012 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator, and was named the 2011 Best Voice in Biography and History and the 2010 Best Voice in fiction by AudioFile magazine. Simon was named a "Golden Voice" by Audiofile Magazine, and Booklist Magazine named him their "Voice of Choice"