Heretics of Dune

Heretics of Dune
First edition cover
AuthorFrank Herbert
Audio read bySimon Vance
Cover artistAbe Echevarria
LanguageEnglish
SeriesDune series
GenreScience fiction
Published1984
PublisherPutnam
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover & paperback)
Pages480
ISBN0-399-12898-0
OCLC77462821
813/.54 19
LC ClassPS3558.E63 H4 1984
Preceded byGod Emperor of Dune 
Followed byChapterhouse: Dune 

Heretics of Dune is a 1984 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the fifth in his Dune series of six novels.

Set 1,500 years after the events of God Emperor of Dune (1981), the novel finds humanity on the path set for them by the tyrant Leto II Atreides to guarantee their survival. But a new threat arrives in the form of the Honored Matres, a brutal matriarchy from beyond the known universe whose only goals are conquest and destruction.

Heretics of Dune was ranked as the No. 13 hardcover fiction best seller of 1984 by The New York Times.