Paul Atreides leads the Fremen of Arrakis to victory over the Harkonnens and the Emperor’s Sardaukar, kills Feyd-Rautha in a duel and forces Emperor Shaddam IV to surrender.

The novel’s six nested stories return in reverse order, ending where it began, with notary Adam Ewing in 1850 recovering from being poisoned by a doctor he trusted.

Charlotte the spider saves Wilbur the pig from slaughter by weaving words like “Some Pig” and “Humble” into her web, and Wilbur wins a special prize at the county fair.

After nearly twenty years of near misses, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew finally marry, but in 2005 Emma is killed when a lorry hits her while she is cycling.

Tally Youngblood, who betrayed the rebel town of the Smoke by leading Special Circumstances to it, chooses to make amends.

Candace Chen, pregnant and travelling with a group of survivors of the Shen Fever pandemic, escapes from their controlling leader Bob after the group shelters in a suburban mall.

Coraline tricks the Other Mother into opening the door between worlds, rescues her parents and the souls of three ghost children, and escapes.

Thomas, Teresa and the surviving Gladers escape the Maze through the Griever Hole after a desperate fight, and they are rescued by people who seem to be rebels fighting WICKED.

John Perry, a seventy-five-year-old man transferred into a young, genetically enhanced body to fight for the Colonial Defense Forces, survives the brutal Battle of Coral and is promoted to captain.

The uplifted spiders of Kern’s World, led by Portia’s descendants, defeat the desperate human survivors of the ark ship Gilgamesh not by killing them but by infecting them with the same nanovirus that uplifted the spiders.