In the series finale, Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ), it is revealed that the autonomous Face Dancers are creations of the reincarnated thinking machine leaders Omnius and Erasmus but seek to overthrow their machine " masters " as well.

Sandworms are animals similar in appearance to colossal terrestrial annelids and in other ways to the lamprey.

Sandworms are described as " incredibly tough " by Liet-Kynes, who further notes that " high voltage electrical shock applied separately to each ring segment " is the only known way to kill and preserve them ; atomics are the only explosive powerful enough to kill an entire worm, with conventional explosives being unfeasible as " each ring segment has a life of its own.

" Sandworms ", sometimes referred to by other names specific to a given work of fiction, are a somewhat common semi-legendary beast that lurks under the desert sand not unlike a man-eating shark lurking beneath the waves of a body of water.

The reason that they are hard to feed is that, in the wild, they feed mainly by sifting tiny organisms ( White Sandworms in salt and brackish water, insect larvae in fresh ) out of sand and mud.

In the 2007 sequel, Sandworms of Dune, the thinking machines have unleashed decimating viruses on planet after planet, while Face Dancers infiltrate human civilization in their own insidious plot to take over the universe.

In Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ), mysterious saboteurs conduct crippling attacks on the no-ship's systems, and Teg suspects that Face Dancers had infiltrated the ship during their escape from the planet of the Handlers in Hunters of Dune.

The character is brought back as a ghola in the Herbert / Anderson sequels which conclude the original series, Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ).

The character is brought back as two different gholas in the Brian Herbert / Kevin J. Anderson novels which conclude the original series, Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ).

A ghola of Gurney is " conceived " in Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ), a sequel to the original Frank Herbert series written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson, but is killed during gestation in an act of sabotage.

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson continued from the original series with Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ), originally planned to be Dune 7 by Frank Herbert.

The character is brought back as a ghola in the Brian Herbert / Kevin J. Anderson sequels which conclude the original series, Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ).

The character is brought back as a ghola in the Herbert / Anderson sequels which conclude the original series, Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ).

In Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ), the sequel to Hunters and finale of the original Dune series, the Spacing Guild has begun replacing its Navigators with the more cost-effective Ixian navigation devices and cutting off the Navigators ' supply of melange.

The character is brought back as a ghola in the Herbert / Anderson sequels which conclude the original series, Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ).

In Sandworms of Dune, Brian Herbert and Anderson's 2007 conclusion to the original series, the Spacing Guild is manipulated into replacing its Navigators with Ixian navigation devices and cutting off the Navigators ' supply of melange.

The character is resurrected as a ghola and appears in Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ), Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's novels which complete the original series.

His early life is explored in Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Prelude to Dune trilogy ( 1999-2001 ), and the character is brought back as a ghola in their conclusion to the original series, Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ).

The Golden Path is the main driving force in the Frank Herbert-written novels Children of Dune ( 1976 ), God Emperor of Dune ( 1981 ), Heretics of Dune ( 1984 ), and Chapterhouse: Dune ( 1985 ), and is brought to its conclusion in the novels which complete the original series, Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

The character is brought back as a ghola in the Herbert / Anderson sequels which conclude the original series, Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ).

In Sandworms of Dune, the 2007 sequel to Hunters of Dune and finale of the original series, the young Yueh ghola is wracked by feelings of intense guilt over the actions of the " original " Yueh, and fears that he will repeat those mistakes.

Beginning in 1999, his son Brian Herbert and science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson have published a number of prequel novels, as well as two which complete the original Dune series — Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 )— partially based on Frank Herbert's notes discovered a decade after his death.

After publishing their six prequel novels, Brian Herbert and Anderson released Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ), which complete the chronological progression of the original series and wrap up storylines that began with Frank Herbert's Heretics of Dune.

The character is brought back as a ghola in the Herbert / Anderson sequels which conclude the original series, Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ).

In Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ), the second of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's two-part finale to the original Dune series, a ghola of Paul Atreides is created over 5, 000 years after the original's death.

They also appear in Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ), novels by Herbert's son Brian Herbert and author Kevin J. Anderson which conclude the original series.

Many of the ideas in The Dune Encyclopedia were contradicted in the later Dune prequel series Prelude to Dune ( 1999-2001 ) and Legends of Dune ( 2002-2004 ), written after Frank Herbert's death by Brian Herbert ( Frank Herbert's son ) and Kevin J. Anderson, as well as their additional novels Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ), which attempt to complete the original series.

Finally, Scytale's story continues in Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ), Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's sequel novels that complete Frank Herbert's original series.

Sandworms of Dune is the second of two novels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson to conclude Frank Herbert's original Dune series of novels.

The name is shortened from the original ' Giant Sandworms ', a reference to the creatures in the Dune books.

Two decades later, Herbert's son Brian Herbert, along with Kevin J. Anderson, published two sequels – Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ) – based on notes left behind by Frank Herbert for what he referred to as Dune 7, his own planned seventh novel in the Dune series.

Two decades after Frank Herbert's death, his son Brian Herbert, along with Kevin J. Anderson, published two sequels – Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ) – based on notes left behind by Frank Herbert for what he referred to as Dune 7, his own planned seventh novel in the Dune series.

* Sandworms, creatures featured in the film Beetlejuice and more heavily in its spin-off TV series

In 2006 they announced that after Sandworms of Dune they would release an interquel series of novels called Paul of Dune, which was renamed Heroes of Dune in 2007.

Sandworms have reappeared on Arrakis ( now called Rakis ) and renewed the flow of the all-important spice melange to the galaxy.

In 2007's Sandworms of Dune, the young Paul ghola ultimately duels Paolo.

In Sandworms of Dune, the Reverend Mother Sheeana, on the no-ship Ithaca, begins to grow a ghola of the Duke in secret.

In the concluding novel Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ), Leto ( like Sheeana ) can control the worms.

In Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ), written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Duncan Idaho is revealed to be the final Kwisatz Haderach destined to bring together humans and thinking machines.

Sandworms grow to hundreds of meters in length, with specimens observed over 400 meters ( 1, 312 ft ) long and 40 meters ( 131 ft ) in diameter, although Paul becomes a sandrider by summoning a worm that " appeared to be " around half a league ( 2, 778 meters ) or more in length.

Sandworms will not attack sandtrout.

The implication within Herbert's last two Dune novels of the ' prescient hold ' that the residual ganglia within the Sandworms ( and presumably Sand Plankton and Sandtrout ) within the ecosphere on Dune, raises an important concept-the pre-Leto Sandworms also possessed ganglia, and therefore also must therefore have exercised a ' prescient hold ' on the Universe in general.

Being essentially animals, and non-sentient, this hold would then have expressed itself in the form of randomness, violent events, and even reproductively driven cycles within the lives of the Sandworms.