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	Arrakis - Dune
		Dune Messiah is the sequel to Dune and more importantly a bridge to the next book.
		The new life emerging on Arakis is seen as a threat by the old Fremen, and the fate of the entire planet is in danger as Alia deals with her personal demons and the ultimate fate of her brother.
		Throughout the Dune novels, Frank Herbert frequently referred to the long-ago war in which the humans wrested their freedom from "thinking machines." Now, in Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring to life the story of that war, a tale previously seen only in tantalizing hints and clues.
	www.dunemessiah.com /books.shtml (2296 words)

	Bene Tleilax - Dune Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		By the events of Chapterhouse: Dune, the Bene Tleilax had been all but eradicated...save for one Master, Scytale, presumedly a ghola of the original Scytale of Dune Messiah (though the Scytale from Dune Messiah was a face dancer whereas the one in Chapterhouse: Dune was a Master) who was captured by the Bene Gesserit.
		At the time of Dune, gholas have no access to the lives of the person from whom they were cloned, but after Dune Messiah, the Tleilaxu discover that a ghola can recover his or her genetic memory during a carefully staged moment of great stress.
		In Heretics of Dune, it is revealed that the Tleilaxu can also create the spice melange in axolotl tanks, breaking the monopoly on spice that Arrakis held for thousands of years which strongly determined the economics and the politics of the Imperium.
	wiki.dune2k.com /wiki/Bene_Tleilax (1038 words)

	Bene Gesserit - Dune Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the novel Dune, the Bene Gesserit breeding scheme was, in theory, to have come to full fruition from the union of an Atreides daughter (born of the Lady Jessica and the Duke Leto Atreides) and the Na-Baron Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (son of Abulurd Harkonnen, brother of the Siridar-Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
		It is hinted throughout Heretics of Dune that they are cautiously using democracy, but this is not confirmed and elaborated upon until the supreme Honored Matre confronts a captive Reverend Mother named Lucilla and attempts to pry Bene Gesserit secrets from her on the Guild planet of Junction.
		In Children of Dune, Alia eventually succumbs to the ancestral ego of her grandfather, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, who wants nothing more than the destruction of the Atreides, and is given another opportunity, from the inside, to realize it.
	wiki.dune2k.com /wiki/Bene_Gesserit (4194 words)

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		2.5 Who/what is Scytale from _Dune Messiah_ and _Chapterhouse: Dune_?
		--------------------------------------------- 2.5 Who/what is Scytale from _Dune Messiah_ and _Chapterhouse: Dune_?
		Although Scytale, the Face Dancer, was killed by Paul Muad'dib at the end of "Dune Messiah," his body was recovered, a ghola was grown, and then forced to recover its original memories.
	www.anomalies.net /archive/general_faq_archive/sf/dune-faq (3923 words)

	alt.fan.dune Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Part 1/4
		This confirms the suspicion that the Atreides of Caladan are descendants of the Ancient Greek House Atreides of Mycenae.
		Scytale is a Tleilaxu Face Dancer, the principal of the conspirators in _Dune Messiah_.
		That this Scytale is the same one (or, rather a ghola/clone of the one) from _Dune Messiah_ is indicated by Master Waff's musings that Scytale had once met Muad'Dib.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/sf/dune-faq/part1 (4827 words)

	Scytale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ancient Greeks, and the Spartans in particular, are said to have used this cipher to communicate during military campaigns.
		From indirect evidence, the scytale was first mentioned by the Greek poet Archilochus who lived in the 7th century BC.
		Due to difficulties in reconciling the description of Plutarch with the earlier accounts, and circumstantial evidence such as the cryptographic weakness of the device, several authors have suggested that the scytale was used for conveying messages in plaintext, and that Plutarch's description is mythological.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scytale (559 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Frank Herbert - Chapterhouse Dune at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The last two Dune novels are about the Bene Gesserit and how they deal with an invasion of the "Honored Matres," which is a perversion of their own secret society.
		Another issue I have with the last two Dune novels is their treatment of the Tleilaxu in general and Scytale in particular.
		Scytale, as a character, is introduced in Dune Messiah as a Face Dancer.
	www.epinions.com /content_53883342468 (1438 words)

	Variant: Dune - A Spotlight on Games
		Scytale supplemented this important ability with mastery in diplomacy and strategy.
		In Dune Messiah, Bijaz was the catalyst that motivated the Duncan Idaho ghola to attempt to assassinate Paul.
		Although briefly mentioned in the first three Dune books, Ix and it inhabitants are not described in depth until God Emperor of Dune.
	www.spotlightongames.com /variant/dune (3359 words)

	Dune 7 Blog
		Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond.
		At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune -- Frank Herbert's final novel -- a ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood.
		As designed by the creative genius of Frank Herbert, the primary story of Hunters and Sandworms is the exotic odyssey of Duncan's no-ship as it is forced to elude the diabolical traps set by the ferocious, unknown Enemy.
	www.dunenovels.com /dune7blog/page53.html (535 words)

	Hairy Ticks of Dune: Whither next? Name that series!
		A Paul of Dune trilogy, which will describe events between Dune: House Corrino and Dune and between Dune and Dune Messiah, etc., is already announced as "forthcoming" and scheduled for completion by 2010.
		Dune: The Mentat School, Dune: The Guild, and Dune: Bene Gesserit are almost sure to come.
		A story that follows Scytale from his role as Face dancer sent to further the demise of Muadib, to his promotion as Master and the years and multiple gholas of himself that follow.
	dunehairyticks.blogspot.com /2006/10/whither-next-name-that-series.html (899 words)

	Funagain Games: Dune
		This edition of DUNE was produced under license from Avalon Hill and is the same game as the original Avalon Hill edition that was produced in 10+ years ago.
		The DUNE sequence of play is spelled out on a player aid like it is in most other games, and several of the phases do not take up much time.
		DUNE manages to create an environment of six very different and complex powers where each one at times can be considered 'too powerful'.
	www.funagain.com /control/product/~product_id=07363 (1958 words)

	Dune: The Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dune was a desolate sand covered world where giant sandworms lived in the deep desert, along with a people called the Fremen.
		Dune was valuable for its mind expanding and life expanding Melange.
		Because of the contreceptive the pregnancy is complicated and she must consume large quantities of food (which is laced with melange..melange is in everything on Dune).
	members.tripod.com /~christabella1/dbooks.html (704 words)

	Amazon.ca: Dune Messiah: Books: Frank Herbert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He seemed tacitly to admit this once when he said that "parts of Children of Dune were written before Dune was finished." It also suffers from the fact that it was first serialized in a SF magazine.
		While Dune Messiah is the second part of the Dune trilogy, I think Frank Herbert really accomplished his goal of describing the failure of the future-seeing hero in this book.
		Dune Messiah is exactly as I remembered it: a disappointment not just in comparison to Dune, but a true mediocrity in its own right, with a surprising amount of fragements of thoughts and ruminations that just don't make any sense.
	www.amazon.ca /Dune-Messiah-Frank-Herbert/dp/0441172695 (1343 words)

	Dune: Chapterhouse
		Chapterhouse: Dune By Frank Herbert (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1985) At first, Chapterhouse: Dune (a sequel of Dune) by Frank Herbert is confusing.
		Scytale is a prisoner on Chapterhouse for being of aid to the Jews.
		In my humble opinion, Chapterhouse: Dune is very accurate in the depiction of the human mind and in the actuality of technology.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/10/bah273.shtml (658 words)

	Jim on the Web - Review of Herbert's Chapterhouse Dune
		Arrakis, or Dune as we know it, is merely a smoking cinder, one of many on which the Maters left nothing or nobody alive.
		The first three books could be the Paul Atreides trilogy, in the middle there's God Emperor of Dune, and the final three could have been planned as the Golden Path trilogy, with Chapterhouse Dune as the middle one of that trilogy.
		Just like in Heretics of Dune there are quite some story-threads, but this time the ending doesn't bring them together.
	jim-on-the-web.com /en/timeoff/books/herbert-chapterhousedune.html (452 words)

	: RevolutionSF - Dune: House Corrino : Review
		Dune fans are sharpening their crysknives, just waiting for you to mess up.
		In Dune, the behind-the-scenes manipulations of Shaddam by the Bene Gesserit were fascinating and complex.
		There are reasons for Dune fans to read these books, although these reasons are rooted pretty thoroughly in the development of already-familiar characters.
	www.revolutionsf.com /article.html?id=448 (826 words)

	Review of Frank Herbert's Chapterhouse: Dune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Chapterhouse: Dune continues quite closely after the events of Heretics of Dune, unlike some of the earlier gaps in the series (which have added up to over five thousand years since the original Dune).
		Herbert dangles a number of useless plot threads in front of the reader, and the ending is both unsatisfying and inconclusive.
		After the beautifully written closure of Heretics of Dune, which was both open-ended and a lovely wrap-up, this is particularly disappointing.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/dune6.htm (739 words)

	Amazon.com: Hunters of Dune: Books: Brian Herbert,Kevin J. Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I gave Hunters of Dune a chance because it is supposed to be based on an outline by the old man himself, and because I was curious to see how one could follow up on the rather ambiguous ending of Chapterhouse.
		The universe portrayed in Hunters of Dune portrays a gang of murderous thugs against the militarized and scarcely less brutal Bene Gesserit/Honored Matre synthesis called the New Sisterhood.
		The Dune Saga continues with the voices of Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson.
	www.amazon.com /Hunters-Dune-Brian-Herbert/dp/0765312921 (2601 words)

	alt.fan.dune Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		However, Dr. McNelly has offered to provide Dune fans with an opportunity to have their copies of the DE inscribed with a personalized note (meaning that signed copies WITH a personalized note from now on need not be fake).
		This information is to a large degree based on a list of Dune merchandise by Josh Z. For more information and pictures of movie merchandise, go to: < http://www.arrakis.co.uk/collectorsbook.html> --------------- 6.4.1 Action figures and toys LJN Toys released a series of action figures and toys based on the movie.
		Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis - Official FAQ by S.E.Pollitt is available by e-mail from sepollit@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au or by anonymous ftp from: < ftp.uwp.edu:/pub/msdos/games/romulus/hints> --------------- 7.3.3 Dune 2000 Dune 2000 is an updated version of Dune II, released by Virgin/EA under the Westwood label.
	omicron.felk.cvut.cz /FAQ/articles/a2265.html (10224 words)

	Bureau 42 \| TV Discussion - "Children Of Dune" Part One
		In "Children of Dune" I was aware of the seams between cg and real.
		Scytale's reveal at the end pretty much followed the book, as I recall.
		I will note that I'm bothered by the number of the things they seem to be changing from the books just for the sake of change (as opposed to making things more understandable or trimming for the time).
	www.bureau42.com /view/1183 (1332 words)

	Honest John's > Dune 7
		As for the Dune books from Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson, the House books were okay, but this latest Legends of Dune is horrible.
		When I finished the last book, I was ready to throw it at her since it was quite obvious that it wasn't intended to be the last one, but that Herbert had died before he could give it to us.
		They've also done Children of Dune, which was actually a combination of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune.
	www.hallofworlds.net /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t1259.html (1810 words)

	Dune Messiah Summary
		Reverent Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam is not sure whether to accept Paul’s offer as her sisterhood also believes the Bene Tleilax to be evil, so she asks Paul for a conference to Wallach to ask her Mother Superior’s opinion on the offer.
		Meanwhile, the Bene Tleilax profiting a period of confusion manage to get into Paul’s court two further tools: a Shape dancer, Scytale who enters in the Keep by pretending to be Otheym’s daughter, one of Paul’s old Fedaykin; and Bijaz a dwarf that served in Otheym’s house.
		Having found their lever, the Bene Tleilax bargain with Paul the recovery of his beloved Chani in a ghola form, first through Bijaz who is killed by Duncan/Hyatt and latter by Otheym’s fake daughter who takes Paul’s newborn twins as hostages in order to be heard.
	www.shvoong.com /books/2569-dune-messiah (712 words)

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		Keywords: faq introduction intro dune frank herbert From: dunefaq@email.com (Gunnar Harboe) Followup-To: alt.fan.dune Reply-To: dunefaq@email.com Originator: faqserv@penguin-lust.MIT.EDU Date: 17 Apr 2004 11:28:19 GMT Lines: 975 NNTP-Posting-Host: penguin-lust.mit.edu X-Trace: 1082201299 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 576 18.181.0.29 Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu alt.fan.dune:76156 alt.answers:72504 news.answers:269974 Archive-name: sf/dune-faq/part1 Posting-Frequency: monthly Last-modified: 2001/12/06 The alt.fan.dune FAQ Part 1/4 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 1.
		In Dune it's the other way around: "Fixed knives are treated for storage." - The Battle of Corrin is said to be the final battle of the Butlerian Jihad, fought by the "Bridge of Hrethgir".
		According to _Dune_ it was a space battle that took place twenty years after the Butlerian Jihad was over.
	www.faqs.org /ftp/pub/usenet/news.answers/sf/dune-faq/part1 (4869 words)

	SCIFI.COM \| Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
		And will you explain that Scytale, after murdering Lichna, takes on her persona in order to gain entry to Paul's Keep, and plays a large role after the twins are born?
		It was a tired and predictable way to go, and Children of Dune deserved something special that wouldn't upstage or distract from the drama but would still be a showstopper.
		I didn't feel it was important to see Scytale change into Lichna.
	www.scifi.com /dune/features/director03.html (369 words)

	UsulNet Forums - Scytale: A much misunderstood fanatic! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I never worked out how Scytale could be a Face Dancer in Dune Messiah (and as a Face Dancer therefore sterile and subservient to Tleilaxu Masters) yet be a Master by the time we get to Chapter House.
		I always figure the face dancer Scytale in Dune Messiah was only the first of his lives.
		I suppose he could have been a different Scytale but he is supposed to have memories stretching back to Muad-dibs time...
	www.usul.net /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=65 (662 words)

	OtherWorld Science Fiction: Dune Movies
		Perhap because the material from the second and third books, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune are not quite as complex as Dune.
		The cast changes that were made as well as the choices for the new characters strengthened the acting.
		Unlike the other two Dune films which are worth watching as 'epic' scifi genre films, this one is worth watching as an epic film.
	www.patriotresource.com /otherworld/scifi/dune/movies/page3.html (148 words)

	Movie Info for Children of Dune on MSN Movies
		Officially based on two of Frank Herbert's science fiction novels, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune, this three-part, six-hour miniseries was actually a sequel to the Sci-Fi Channel's multipart adaptation of the original Dune.
		The story was set in the year 10,103: Having deposed the evil emperor of the desert planet Arrakis, the messianic Paul Atreides (Scott Newman) was firmly installed as the planet's supreme "Muad'Dib," as well as the guardian of Arrakis' life-enhancing spice supply.
		Like the previous Dune miniseries, this one was decked out with superlative special effects, excellent performances, on-target direction, and (most vital for any Herbert adaptation) a thoroughly logical and coherent teleplay.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=540071 (201 words)

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