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The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad’Dib, disappeared in the deserts of Arrakis. Like their father, they possess supernormal abilities—making them valuable to their aunt Alia, who rules the Empire. If Alia can obtain the secrets... read more
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Muad’Dib has become an old man damaged by forced overdoses of spice essence and dependent on an assistant; he is rousing the populace against the priestly apparatus and its ruler — his sister Alia, who has since lost the battle with the memory personalities she contains, and is possessed by... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Paul Atreides: Son of Duke Leto Atrides. The emperor of Arrakis.
- Duke Leto Atreides: Paul's father.
- Lady Jessica: Bene Gesserit. Concubine of the Duke. Paul and Alia's mother.
- Princess Irulan: the Emperor Shaddam's eldest daughter and heir, also a historian. Paul's wife.
- Duncan Idaho: The Duke's Swordmaster and Paul's friend.
- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: Paul's grandfather and enemy
- Chani: Paul's lover and the mother of his children
- Stilgar: Fremen Naib (chieftain); Stilgar is a death commando.
- Alia Atreides: Paul's youger sister. Also known as 'Alia of the Knife'.
- Gurney Halleck: Troubadour warrior and a loyal servant and friend to Duke Leto and Lady Jessica
- Leto Atreides II: Paul's son.
- Ghanima Atreides: Paul's daughter.
- Tyekanik: A Sardaukar general.
- Namri: A member of the clandestine Sietch known as Fonduk (formerly Jacarutu).
- Sabiha: Member of the clandestine Sietch known as Fonduk (formerly Jacartu). Nurses Leto Atreides while he is forced to undergo a spice trance
- Wensicia: Third daughter of Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV
- Harah: Stilgar's second wife. Was previously wife of Jamis and after he was killed by Paul - Paul's wife.
- Farad'n: Prince of House Corrino
- Buer Agarves: Member of Sietch Tabr who later becomes an aide to Zia, the bodyguard of Alia.
- Korba: One of the chief priests of the religion of Muad'Dib. Used to be one of Paul's death commandos.
Quotes edit
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“Muad'Dib's teachings have become the playground of scholastics, of the superstitious and the corrupt. He taught a balanced way of life, a philosophy with which a human can meet problems arising from an ever-changing universe. He said humankind is still evolving, in a process which will never end. He said this evolution moves on changing principles which are known only to eternity. How can corrupted reasoning play with such an essence?”
Words of the Mentat Duncan Idaho -
“CHALLENGE: "Have you seen The Preacher?"RESPONSE: "I have seen a sandworm."CHALLENGE: "What about that sandworm?"RESPONSE: "It gives us the air we breathe."CHALLENGE: "Then why do we destroy its land?"RESPONSE: "Because Shai-Hulud (sandworm deified) orders it."”
Riddles of Arrakis by Harq al-Ada -
“The sietch at the desert's rimWas Liet's, was Kynes's,Was Stilgar's, was Muad'Dib'sAnd once more, was Stilgar's.The Naibs one by one sleep in the sand,But the sietch endures.”
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“The Fremen must return to his original faith, to his genius in forming human communities; he must return to the past, where that lesson of survival was learned in the struggle with Arrakis. The only business of the Fremen should be that of opening his soul to the inner teachings. The worlds of the Imperium, the Landsraad and the CHOAM Confederacy have no message to give him. They will only rob him of his soul.”
The Preacher at Arrakeen -
“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the sand; and he had two horns like a lamb, but his mouth was fanged and fiery as the dragon and his body shimmered and burned with great heat while it did hiss like the serpent.”
Revised Orange Catholic Bible
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Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class—whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
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There’s no mystery about a human life. It’s not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
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Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.
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“To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror; to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.”
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When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
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“If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error.
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‘I’m going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don’t find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?’
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The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist.
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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
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Organizations edit
- Bene Gesserit: A key social, religious, and political force
- CHOAM: The acronym for the Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles, it controls economic activity in the known universe.
First Sentence edit
A spot of light appeared on the deep red rug which covered the raw rock of the cave floor.
Glossary edit
- 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 teeth 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.
- Stillsiut: 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.
- Ghola: A type of clone grown in an axlotl tank from genetic material retrieved from the cells of a deceased subject, a ghola is created using a technological process developed and monopolized by the Tleilaxu.
- Glowglobe: A small glowing sphere that floats gracefully above a surface like a portable, personal sun, since it is typically tuned to a yellowish color.
- Missionaria Protectiva: The Bene Gesserit practice which spreads contrived myths, prophecies and superstition among the populations of the Empire.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 9 in Dune Chronicles. (standard series)
Preceded by Dune Messiah, and followed by God Emperor of Dune.
This is book 3 of 16 in Dune Universe. (universe)
Preceded by Dune Messiah, and followed by God Emperor of Dune.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Frank Herbert (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Putnam
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1976
ISBN: 0399116974
Page Count: 444
Publisher: Putnam
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1976
ISBN: 0399116974
Page Count: 444
Awards edit
- Hugo (Finalist, 1977: Best Novel)
- Locus Science Fiction Award (Finalist, 1977)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PZ4.H5356 Ch3 PS3558.E63
- Dewey: 813.54
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