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Description
Climactic volume of the Dune trilogy in which an alien society achieves ecological salvation.
Summary
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)
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Paul Atreides: the emperor
- Duke Leto Atreides: Paul's father
- Lady Jessica: Paul's mother
- Princess Irulan: Paul's wife
- Duncan Idaho: a beautiful servant
- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: Paul's grandfather and enemy
- Chani: Paul's lover and the mother of his children
- Stilgar: a Fremen
- Alia Atreides: Paul's sister
- Gurney Halleck: a servant
- Leto Atreides II: Paul's son
- Ghanima Atreides: Paul's dauther
Memorable Quotes
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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 rim Was Liet's, was Kynes's, Was Stilgar's, was Muad'Dib's And once more, was Stilgar's. The Naibs one by one sleep in the sand, But the sietch endures.”
from a Fremen song -
“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
First Sentence
A spot of light appeared on the deep red rug which covered the raw rock of the cave floor.
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.
- 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.
Series
This is book 3 in the Dune Chronicles series.
Authors & Contributors
- Frank Herbert (Author)
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