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This is a list of terminology used in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert, the primary source being "Terminology of the Imperium", the glossary contained in the novel Dune (1965).
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.
In Terminology of the Imperium, the glossary of the 1965 novel Dune, Herbert provides the following definition: LASGUN: continuous-wave laser projector. Its use as a weapon is limited in a field-generator-shield culture because of the explosive pyrotechnics (technically, subatomic fusion) created when its beam intersects a shield. [24]
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In Dune, there is only one source of melange: the sands of the planet Arrakis, colloquially known as Dune, [3] [13] and millennia later called simply "Rakis". [11] Herbert notes in Dune that a pre-spice mass is "the stage of fungusoid wild growth achieved when water is flooded into the excretions of Little Makers ", [ 14 ] the "half-plant ...
The ultimate goal of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, up to the end of the novel Dune, is the creation of a male Bene Gesserit they call the Kwisatz Haderach (/ ˈ k w ɪ s ɑː t s ˈ h ɑː d ər æ k /, [10] defined by Herbert as "The Shortening of the Way", the term comes from the Hebrew mystical term Kefitzat Haderech [11]). They intend to ...
Arrakis (/ ə ˈ r ɑː k ɪ s /) [1] —informally known as Dune and later called Rakis—is a fictional desert planet featured in the Dune series of novels by Frank Herbert.Herbert's first novel in the series, 1965's Dune, is considered one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, [2] and it is sometimes cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history.
"Terminology of the Imperium" in the Appendix of Dune notes that House Ginaz are "one-time allies of Duke Leto Atreides" and are "defeated in the War of Assassins with Grumman." [ 41 ] Duncan Idaho is noted to be a "Swordmaster of the Ginaz," [ 6 ] which leads to his body later being sold to the Tleilaxu as "a master swordsman, an adept of the ...