Blossary – Dune by Frank Herbert

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Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by Frank Herbert. Set in the far future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which noble houses, in control of individual planets, owe allegiance to the imperial House Corrino, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides, the heir apparent to Duke Leto Atreides as his family accepts control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the "spice" melange. Melange is the most important and valuable substance in the universe, increasing Arrakis's value as a fief. The story explores the multi-layered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion, as the forces of the empire confront each other in a struggle for the control of Arrakis and its "spice". Dune is the world's best-selling science fiction novel, and an influence to many SF works, such as the famous Star Wars.

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mentat

A mentat is a profession or discipline in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe. Mentats are humans trained to mimic computers: human minds developed to staggering heights of cognitive and ...

Bene Gesserit

The Bene Gesserit are a key social, religious, and political force in Frank Herbert's science fiction Dune universe. The group is described as an exclusive sisterhood whose members train their bodies ...

Corrino

Imperial House Corrino is a fictional noble family from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. The Corrinos come to power after humanity's victory against the thinking machines at the Battle of ...

Harkonnen

House Harkonnen is a powerful noble family in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe. The Harkonnens are featured prominently in the original 1965 novel Dune, and The Harkonnen bloodline extends ...

Atreides

House Atreides is a fictional noble family from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. One of the Great Houses of the feudal interstellar empire known as the Imperium, whose members play a role ...

Fremen

The Fremen are a group of people in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. They are nomadic, desert-dwelling people, descendants of humans who migrated to Arrakis thousands of years ...

melange

Melange, or the "spice" – is the name of the fictional drug central to the Dune series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert, and derivative works. In the series, the most essential and valuable ...