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| | Articles - Dune (novel) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Supplanting the Harkonnens, the Atreides are granted stewardship of the forbidding desert planet Arrakis, also known as "Dune," the only source of the nearly priceless spice melange that increases life expectancy threefold. |
 | | The central figure of the book is Paul Atreides, son and heir presumptive to Duke Leto Atreides, head of the House Atreides, and Leto's concubine, Jessica, a Bene Gesserit lady. |
 | | Jessica, not realizing the consequences of what the Fremen are about to do, accepts to cement her place in the tribe. |
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