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Dune follows Paul, the scion of House Atreides, as his family is thrown into the dangerous political intrigues centered on the desert planet Arrakis, only known source of the oracular spice melange, the most important and valuable substance in the universe. The series spans 5,000 years, focusing on Paul and then his various descendants.
House Atreides: House Harkonnen: House Corrino: Baron Vladimir Harkonnen: Tanidia Nerus [n 1]: Anirul: Shaddam IV: Leto I Atreides: Lady Jessica [n 2]: Count Dalak Kenola: Princess Wensicia
The Bene Gesserit (/ ˈ b ɛ n iː ˈ dʒ ɛ s ər ɪ t /) [1] are a group in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe.A powerful social, religious, and political force, the Bene Gesserit is described as an exclusive sisterhood whose members train their bodies and minds through years of physical and mental conditioning to obtain superhuman powers and abilities that seem magical to outsiders. [2]
Paul spends most of the first Dune novel avenging the death of his father at the hands of a villain named Baron Harkonnen and the Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, both of whom believe Paul's family to ...
The Dune saga is set thousands of years in humanity's future.Faster-than-light travel has been developed, and humans have colonized a vast number of worlds. However, a great reaction against computers has resulted in a ban on any "thinking machine", with the creation or possession of such punishable by immediate death.
Legends of Dune is a prequel trilogy of novels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in Frank Herbert's Dune universe. The series takes place over 10,000 years before the events of the 1965 novel Dune, and chronicles the universe-spanning war against thinking machines that would eventually become known as the Butlerian Jihad. [18]
As a child actress, Alicia Witt portrayed Alia in the 1984 film Dune. Alia Atreides (/ ə ˈ l iː ə ə ˈ t r eɪ ɪ d iː z /) [1] [2] is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. She was introduced in the first novel of the series, 1965's Dune, and was originally killed in Herbert's first version of the manuscript ...
Sisterhood of Dune is a 2012 science fiction novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. It is the first book in their Great Schools of Dune prequel trilogy , which itself is a sequel to their Legends of Dune trilogy.