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Books by Frank Herbert

THE BOOK OF FRANK HERBERT
DESTINATION: VOID (revised edition)
DIRECT DESCENT
THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT
EYE
THE EYES OF HEISENBERG
THE GODMAKERS
THE GREEN BRAIN
THE MAKER OF DUNE
THE SANTAROGA BARRIER
SOUL CATCHER
WHIPPING STAR
THE WHITE PLAGUE
THE WORLDS OF FRANK HERBERT
MAN OF TWO WORLDS (with Brian Herbert)

The Dune Chronicles

DUNE
DUNE MESSIAH
CHILDREN OF DUNE
GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE
HERETICS OF DUNE
CHAPTERHOUSE: DUNE

Books by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom

THE JESUS INCIDENT
THE LAZARUS EFFECT
THE ASCENSION FACTOR

Books edited by Brian Herbert

THE NOTEBOOKS OF FRANK HERBERTS DUNE
SONGS OF MAUDDIB

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eISBN : 978-0-441-01359-3

Herbert, Frank
Dune.
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PS3558.E63D.54
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To the people whose labors go beyond
ideas into the realm of real materials
to the dry-land ecologists, wherever
they may be, in whatever time they work,
this effort at prediction is dedicated in
humility and admiration.

Book One

DUNE

A beginning is the time for taking themost delicate care that the balances arecorrect. This every sister of the BeneGesserit knows. To begin your study ofthe life of MuadDib, then, take care thatyou first place him in his time: born in the57th year of the Padishah Emperor,Shaddam IV. And take the most specialcare that you locate MuadDib in hisplace: the planet Arrakis. Do not bedeceived by the fact that he was born onCaladan and lived his first fifteen yearsthere. Arrakis, the planet known asDune, is forever his place.

from Manual of MuadDib by the Princess Irulan

IN THE week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul.

It was a warm night at Castle Caladan, and the ancient pile of stone that had served the Atreides family as home for twenty-six generations bore that cooled-sweat feeling it acquired before a change in the weather.

The old woman was let in by the side door down the vaulted passage by Pauls room and she was allowed a moment to peer in at him where he lay in his bed.

By the half-light of a suspensor lamp, dimmed and hanging near the floor, the awakened boy could see a bulky female shape at his door, standing one step ahead of his mother. The old woman was a witch shadowhair like matted spiderwebs, hooded round darkness of features, eyes like glittering jewels.

Is he not small for his age, Jessica? the old woman asked. Her voice wheezed and twanged like an untuned baliset.

Pauls mother answered in her soft contralto: The Atreides are known to start late getting their growth, Your Reverence.

So Ive heard, so Ive heard, wheezed the old woman. Yet hes already fifteen.

Yes, Your Reverence.

Hes awake and listening to us, said the old woman. Sly little rascal. She chuckled. But royalty has need of slyness. And if hes really the Kwisatz Haderach ... well....

Within the shadows of his bed, Paul held his eyes open to mere slits. Two bird-bright ovalsthe eyes of the old womanseemed to expand and glow as they stared into his.

Sleep well, you sly little rascal, said the old woman. Tomorrow youll need all your faculties to meet my gom jabbar.

And she was gone, pushing his mother out, closing the door with a solid thump.

Paul lay awake wondering: Whats a gom jabbar?

In all the upset during this time of change, the old woman was the strangest thing he had seen.

Your Reverence.

And the way she called his mother Jessica like a common serving wench instead of what she wasa Bene Gesserit Lady, a dukes concubine and mother of the ducal heir.

Is a gom jabbar something of Arrakis I must know before we go there? he wondered.

He mouthed her strange words: Gom jabbar... Kwisatz Haderach.

There had been so many things to learn. Arrakis would be a place so different from Caladan that Pauls mind whirled with the new knowledge. ArrakisDuneDesert Planet.

Thufir Hawat, his fathers Master of Assassins, had explained it: their mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, had been on Arrakis eighty years, holding the planet in quasi-fief under a CHOAM Company contract to mine the geriatric spice, melange. Now the Harkonnens were leaving to be replaced by the House of Atreides in fief-complete-an apparent victory for the Duke Leto. Yet, Hawat had said, this appearance contained the deadliest peril, for the Duke Leto was popular among the Great Houses of the Landsraad.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful, Hawat had said.

ArrakisDuneDesert Planet.

Paul fell asleep to dream of an Arrakeen cavern, silent people all around him moving in the dim light of glowglobes. It was solemn there and like a cathedral as he listened to a faint soundthe drip-drip-drip of water. Even while he remained in the dream, Paul knew he would remember it upon awakening. He always remembered the dreams that were predictions.

The dream faded.

Paul awoke to feel himself in the warmth of his bedthinking... thinking. This world of Castle Caladan, without play or companions his own age, perhaps did not deserve sadness in farewell. Dr. Yueh, his teacher, had hinted that the faufreluches class system was not rigidly guarded on Arrakis. The planet sheltered people who lived at the desert edge without caid or bashar to command them: will-o-the-sand people called Fremen, marked down on no census of the Imperial Regate.

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