Editing God Emperor of Dune (section)

==Critical reception==
''God Emperor of Dune'' was ranked as the No. 11 hardcover fiction best seller of 1981 by ''[[Publishers Weekly]]''.<ref name="20th Best">{{cite web|url=http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/courses/entc312/s05/best80.cgi|title=20th-Century American Bestsellers|work=[[The Bowker Annual]]/[[Publishers Weekly]]|publisher=LIS.Illinois.edu|access-date=January 5, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719211204/http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/courses/entc312/s05/best80.cgi|archive-date=July 19, 2011}}</ref> The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' wrote that the novel was "Rich fare ... heady stuff", and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' called it "a fourth visit to distant Arrakis that is every bit as fascinating as the other three—every bit as timely."<ref name="Praise">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RxxwnkPHlfEC&q=Praise%20for%20the%20Dune%20Chronicles|title=Children of Dune|chapter=Praise for the ''Dune'' Chronicles|first=Frank|last=Herbert|date=1976|edition=2008|publisher=[[Penguin Publishing Group]]|isbn=9781440630514|access-date=May 24, 2020}}</ref> Critic [[John Leonard (critic)|John Leonard]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' was less charitable, stating the original ''Dune'' novel "was just about a perfect science fiction" that had not been improved on: "not in ''Dune Messiah,'' in ''Children of Dune'' or in ''God Emperor of Dune.''"<ref name="NYT Review">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/27/books/books-of-the-times-104040.html |title=Books of the Times |last=Leonard |first=John |date=April 27, 1981 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=August 5, 2020}}</ref>