Dune (edit title)

Pequeño saltamontes edited the awards of Dune 7 days ago.

• Edited category of an award: Nebula Best Novelscience fiction or fantasy novel

Pequeño saltamontes edited the awards of Dune 8 days ago.

• Edited an award: Hugo AwardHugo
• Edited category of an award: Hugo AwardHugo Best sciencie fiction novel
• Edited an award: Nebula AwardNebula

Paul H edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Dune Sunday, October 25 2009.

• Added: Melancholy boy discovers his true potential to ride worms like a cowboy.

Vidreven edited the glossary of Dune Wednesday, October 14 2009.

• Edited the definition of Voice: thatThat combined training originated by the Bene Gesserit which permits an adept to control others merely by selected tone shading of the voice.

Vidreven edited the glossary of Dune Wednesday, October 14 2009.

• Added the definition of Shai-hulud: Sandworm of Arrakis, the "Grandfather of the Desert". They grow to enormous sizes (specimens longer than 400 meters have been seen in the deep desert) and live to great age. Most of the sand on Arrakis is credited to sandworm action.
• Added the definition of Stillsuit: Body-enclosing gament invented on Arrakis.
• Added the definition of Voice: that combined training originated by the Bene Gesserit which permits an adept to control others merely by selected tone shading of the voice.

Vidreven edited the glossary of Dune Wednesday, October 14 2009.

• Added the definition of Ornithopter: Any aircraft capable of sustained wing-beat flight in the manner of birds.
• Added the definition of Reverend Mother: Originally, a proctor of the Bene Gesserit, one who has transformed an "illuminating poison" within her body, raising herself to a higher state of awareness.
• Added the definition of Sardaukar: The soldier-fanatics of the Padishah Emperor.

Vidreven edited the glossary of Dune Wednesday, October 14 2009.

• Added the definition of Fedaykin: Fremen death commandos.
• Added the definition of Fremen: The free tribes of Arrakis, dwellers in the desert.
• Added the definition of Great Mother: The horned goddess, the feminine principle of space.
• Added the definition of Gom Jabbar: Specific poison needle tipped with metacyenide used by Bene Gesserit Proctors inthe death-alternative test of human awareness.
• Added the definition of Eyes of Ibad: Characteristic effect of a diet high in melange wherein the whites a pupils of the eyes turn deep blue.
• Added the definition of Melange: The "spice of spices", the crop for which Arrakis is a unique source. The spice, chiefly noted for it's geriatric qualities, is mildly addictive when taken in small quantities.
• Added the definition of Mentat: A class of Imperial citizens trained for supreme accomplishments of logic. "Human computers".
• Added the definition of Muad'dib: An adapted kangaroo mouse of Arrakis, a creature associated in the Fremen earth-spiritmithology with a design visible on the planet's second moon. This creature is admired by Fremen for it's abillity to survive in the open desert.

Vidreven edited the glossary of Dune Wednesday, October 14 2009.

• reordered the glossary.
• Added the definition of Bindu: Relating to the human nervous system, especially to nerv training.
• Added the definition of Bled: Flat, open desert.
• Added the definition of Chakobsa: The so called "magic-language", derived in part fromthe ancient Bhotani.
• Added the definition of Crysknife: The sacred knife of the Frmen on Arrakis. It is manofactured in two forms from teeht taken from the dead sandworms.
• Added the definition of Erg: An extensive dune area, a sea of sand.
• Removed the definition of Cymek: Type of cyborg, or machine-human hybrid.

Amanda edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Dune Wednesday, October 7 2009.

• Edited: desert-dwellersDesert-dwellers covet bodily fluids, ride worms like cowboys.

Amanda edited the glossary of Dune Wednesday, October 7 2009.

• Added the definition of Deathstill: Fremen device used to extract all moisture from a living or dead human or creature.