City vs God Emperor of Dune: Which Should You Read?

City Clifford D. Simak · 1952 ★★★★☆ 4.0 256 pages · ≈ 4 h 44 m · Moderate

[Comment by John Clute][1]: We know better now, of course. But they still entrance us, the old page-turners from the glory days of American SF, half a century or so ago, when the world was full of futures we were never…

God Emperor of Dune Frank Herbert · 1981 ★★★★☆ 3.9 600 pages · ≈ 11 h 07 m · Moderate

Fourth book in the Dune series. Takes place 3500 years after the events of the original trilogy. Tells the story of Leto, the son of Paul Atreides, who has traded his humanity to become an immortal sandworm of Dune.