Herbert's six first, then the Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson prequels, the two books that finish Chapterhouse, and the Caladan run up to page one of Dune.
The Emperor's synthetic-spice project on Ix collapses while Leto goes to war over it; the trilogy ends with the birth of Paul.
Gurney Halleck in the Harkonnen slave pits, Duncan Idaho training on Ginaz, and Jessica sent from the Sisterhood to Caladan.
After Paul walks into the desert: Jessica and Alia hold Arrakis together while Bronso of Ix writes pamphlets against the Atreides myth.
Twenty-four years into the jihad: Vorian Atreides against the Titan Agamemnon, and Norma Cenva working out how to fold space.
Ten thousand years earlier: humanity revolts against the thinking machines, and Serena Butler gives the war its name.
Thirty-five years before Dune: Leto is sent to Ix as a boy, Pardot Kynes reaches Arrakis, and Shaddam plots his own father's death.
Leto Atreides at home a year before Arrakis, facing a rebel movement called the Noble Commonwealth.
The pursuers are finally named and the cycle is closed, on the outline Brian Herbert found in his father's safe deposit boxes.
Picks up the cliffhanger Frank Herbert left in 1985: the no-ship runs from an enemy the Bene Gesserit cannot name, with a hold full of gholas.
Jessica is recalled to the Sisterhood on Wallach IX, and Leto and Paul are left with the rebellion and a narcotic grown on Caladan.
Alternates between Paul's twelve-year jihad after Dune, fought across the galaxy in his name, and his boyhood on Caladan.
The jihad ends with atomics over Corrin, and the Corrino empire, the Spacing Guild and the Great Convention come out of the wreckage.
The last weeks before Dune opens: the Emperor hands Arrakis to House Atreides and Paul turns fifteen.
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