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The Bene Gesserit are a key social, religious, and political force in Frank Herbert's science fiction Dune universe. The matriarchal group is described as a secretive and exclusive sisterhood whose members train their bodies and minds through years of physical and mental conditioning to obtain superhuman powers and abilities that can seem magical to outsiders.
The Spacing Guild is an organization in Frank Herbert's science fiction Dune universe that possesses a monopoly on interstellar travel and banking. Guild Navigators (alternately Guildsmen or Steersmen) [a] use the drug melange (also called "the spice") to achieve limited prescience, a form of precognition that allows them to successfully navigate "folded space" and safely guide enormous ...
Organizations from the Dune series of science fiction novels written by Frank Herbert, and derivative works. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
The 'Dune' saga includes a lot of books with similar titles and a very complicated chronology, so here's a handy guide to the series.
The Dune Encyclopedia, written by McNelly and 42 [1] other contributors as a companion to the Dune series, was published in paperback in 1984. [2] It describes in great detail many aspects of the Dune universe not covered in the novels themselves, such as character biographies and explanations of key elements, including planets, factions like the Bene Gesserit and Mentats, the spice melange ...
$7.98 at amazon.com. Dune Messiah. In the Dune sequel, Dune Messiah, Paul is now Muad'Dib and the emperor of the known universe.It reveals the dark side of power.
Dune Messiah, by Frank Herbert. In Herbert's first sequel, Paul Atreides, now known as Muad'Dib, rules the known universe as the most powerful emperor of all time.
The political, scientific, and social fictional setting of Herbert's novels and derivative works is known as the Dune universe or Duniverse. Set tens of thousands of years in the future, the saga chronicles a civilization that has banned all "thinking machines", which include computers, robots, and artificial intelligence. In their place ...