About the book: 2000 / The Great Famine followed the death of Leto II. Billions of people were forced to leave the worlds of the Old Empire in search of new happiness. This era went down in history under the name “Dispersion.” Nobody knows where the boundaries of the habitable Universe are now. No one knows what new threats this frightening infinity of cold space conceals. But it becomes known that one and a half thousand years after their departure, some people begin to return. And not with good intentions to bring peace and enlightenment. New types of weapons, new abilities of the human body - this is what the victims of those who return from the Dispersion see before death. But there are also those who do not want to become victims. They oppose their weapons, among which there is another ghola of Duncan Idaho, and the greatest military strategist Miles Teg, and the little girl Shiana from the desert planet Rakis - a girl who is controlled by sandworms, who, according to legend, carry fragments of the consciousness of Leto II.