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Description
Paul Atreides, genetically bred and trained to become the leader of his planet, is still subject to human frailties. The second book of the series.
Cast of Characters/Important People
First Sentence
Muad'dib's Imperial reign generated more historians than any other era in human history.
Table of Contents
Glossary
- Bene Gesserit: Secretive and powerful matriarchal order whose members possess extraordinary physical and mental powers.
- Deathstill: Fremen device used to extract all moisture from a living or dead human or creature.
- Bindu: Relating to the human nervous system, especially to nerv training.
- Bled: Flat, open desert.
- Chakobsa: The so called "magic-language", derived in part fromthe ancient Bhotani.
- Crysknife: The sacred knife of the Frmen on Arrakis. It is manofactured in two forms from teeht taken from the dead sandworms.
- Erg: An extensive dune area, a sea of sand.
- Fedaykin: Fremen death commandos.
- Fremen: The free tribes of Arrakis, dwellers in the desert.
- Great Mother: The horned goddess, the feminine principle of space.
- Gom Jabbar: Specific poison needle tipped with metacyenide used by Bene Gesserit Proctors inthe death-alternative test of human awareness.
- Ibad, Eyes of: Characteristic effect of a diet high in melange wherein the whites a pupils of the eyes turn deep blue.
- 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.
- Mentat: A class of Imperial citizens trained for supreme accomplishments of logic. "Human computers".
- 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.
- Ornithopter: Any aircraft capable of sustained wing-beat flight in the manner of birds.
- 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.
- Sardaukar: The soldier-fanatics of the Padishah Emperor.
- 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.
- Stillsuit: Body-enclosing gament invented on Arrakis.
- Voice: That combined training originated by the Bene Gesserit which permits an adept to control others merely by selected tone shading of the voice.
Series
This is book 2 in the Dune Chronicles series.
Authors & Contributors
- Frank Herbert (Author)
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