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	Serena Butler (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Serena Butler is a character in Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Legends of Dune series, a trilogy of novels set during the Butlerian Jihad, the war against thinking machines only vaguely referred to in Frank Herbert's original Dune series.
		Serena, the daughter of League of Nobles Viceroy Manion Butler and his wife Livia, was a strong voice for the human rebellion at a young age.
		Serena visited machine leader Omnius on Corrin as an emissary of the Jihad under the pretense of negotiating peace; secretly she planned to provoke Omnius into killing her, thereby making her a martyr and reenergizing the Jihad.
	www.danceage.com.cob-web.org:8888 /biography/sdmc_Serena_Butler (986 words)

	Hotel Serena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Serena Williams was born in Saginaw, Michigan and when she and her four sisters were young, their parents, Richard and Oracene (also called Brandy), took them to the poor and sometimes violent Los Angeles suburb of Compton.
		When Serena was four and a half, she won her first tournament, and she entered 49 tournaments before the age of 10, winning 46 of them.
		Serena Waldman (born 1984), is a person with special capacities who became famous as a young adult, when a company dedicated to the transport of special people began to sponsor a hot air balloon after her.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/97/hotel-serena.html (1529 words)

	Butlerian Jihad
		Although at first sight the jihad would appear to be named after Samuel Butler, whose novel Erewhon depicted a people who had eliminated machines for fear they would be out-evolved by them, Herbert's back-story named it after its instigator, Serena Butler.
		This back-story has now been made into a series of novels by Herbert's literary heirs Brian Herbert[?] and Kevin J. Anderson, who describe how Serena Butler and Xavier Harkonnen ignite a war that eventually liberates mankind from the grips of their mechanized overlords.
		A subtler justification for the Butlerian Jihad is also found in the novels, mainly repeating Heidegger's thesis that the use of technology trains humans to think like machines.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bu/Butlerian_Jihad.html (218 words)

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		Serena Butler, whose murdered child has become a symbol for oppressed humanity, inspires a war against the thinking computers led by Xavier Harkonnen and Vorian Atreides.
		Serena Butler blindly follows the advice given her by the Grand Patriarch, Iblis Jinjo, to continue her jihadh against the thinking machines, flatly ignoring the fact that vast numbers of her followers are being massacred on the various worlds they're attempting to keep control of.
		There are a number of fine sub-plots running concurrently with the greater story, notably the political intrigue that threatens to consume Serena Butler and Iblis Jinjo, and Jool Norret, whose father is accidentally killed by the training mek, and vows to avenge his father's death by becoming a better warrior than his father was.
	www.gatewaymonthly.com /dunemacru.html (1022 words)

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		He and the lovely Serena are engaged but while on a mission, Serena takes on a mission of her her own, a radical plan to save the besieged Planet Gedi Prime.
		On Earth Serena, who is pregnant with Xavier's child is given to the ever curious independent robot, Erasmus as one of his house servants.
		Serena is constantly trying to help the other household slaves and Erasmus sees this is a way to remove the troublesome toddler and punish Serena by getting rid of Manion.
	www.epinions.com /content_153368301188 (1303 words)

	Dune Novels Timeline
		Serena Butler is captured by thinking machines and taken to Earth, where she becomes a slave of Erasmus.
		Vorian Atreides, Serena Butler and Iblis Ginjo flee to Salusa Secundus.
		Serena Butler travels to Corrin seemingly to negotiate peace, but in truth to die a martyr’s death.
	www.dunenovels.com /timeline.html (5215 words)

	Plot Analysis' & Character Bios
		Bio: Serena was once a great caring women, that in an attempt to save the planet Geidi Prime, was captured by the faithful Titan Barborossa, next transforred to the villa of the curious robot Erasmus.
		It was soon apperent that the once caring Serena was a evil oppressive entity, through her umbriddled arrogance, she got unimaginable power, but that was all a lie.
		Serena butler hated machines, but more she hated erasmus.
	www.angelfire.com /theforce/legendofdune/plot.html (139 words)

	dragonsworn [book review] - The Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He is deeply in love with Serena Butler, daughter of prominent politician in the League of Nobles.
		Serena despises humanity's disunity against the machine threat, and the willingness of the League to sacrifice poorer worlds in order to safeguard the richer.
		Soon, after Geidi Prime falls to the machines, Serena hatches a desperate plan to retake the planet and she slips away in secret, leaving Xavier Harkonnen to follow after and hope he can save her.
	www.dragonsworn.com /reviews/books/butlerianjihad.html (931 words)

	Dune
		Serena had been his most fascinating human subject ever, but his experiments and tests on her had come to a grinding halt once he'd killed her unruly baby.
		At first, he had assumed the discrepancies from the Serena he had known were inconsequential, the difference between a juvenile and the woman she would ultimately become.
		Though she looked exactly like Serena Butler, this simulacrum was very different in her internal makeup, the way she thought, the way she behaved.
	www.tor.com /Dune/faces_of_a_martyr.html (5371 words)

	Dune: The Machine Crusade
		Serena completely loses it, as she thinks she can convince Omnius to stop his reign of terror.
		But Omnius soon proves to be the least of their problems, as the titans prove to more formidable finally fueling the memory of the human days, the emotional sword was now agamemnon made constant strikes at his son, he hopes to emotionally cut him asunder.
		But like Serena, and being like Erasmus in the earliest Prequil, he has no idea that that sword is a double-edged weapon and all along the sword he using with such results was damaging his power stance.
	www.angelfire.com /theforce/legendofdune/crusade.html (1307 words)

	RPGnet: Review of The Machine Crusade
		Serena Butler is obsessed with her dead son.
		Serena Butler is a crazy obsessive, and Iblis Genjo is a vile hypocrite.
		At least Alia the Abomination had the excuse that she was driven insane by the dark voice of the Baron Harkonnen.
	www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/10/10140.phtml (810 words)

	Legends of Dune
		We meet Serena Butler, a young politician in the League of Nobles who passionately believes that something must be done before the forces of Omnius overwhelms humanity.
		Twenty-five years ago, the death of Manion Butler incited humanity against the machines that ruled them; the conflict quickly ramped up into a religious frenzy-an attitude that Omnius is ill equipped to understand.
		In the meantime, Iblis Ginjo has become the Grand Patriarch of the Jihad, mostly by manipulation-as Serena Butler spends much of her time in seclusion, as an occasional target of assassination attempts (not all of which originate from Omnius).
	members.cox.net /storytellersarchivist/butlerian.html (1479 words)

	Borders - Feature - Whipping Mek: A Tale of the Butlerian Jihad
		Official military personnel were tended first, since they had pledged their lives to fight in the great struggle ignited by Serena Butler.
		Peridot Colony had been but a skirmish, however, like so many others in the dozen years since Serena Butler had originally rallied all humans to fight in her cause, after the thinking machines murdered her young son, Manion.
		Serena gave passionate speeches to recruit new soldiers for her holy war.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=whippingmek (4421 words)

	The Online Dune Encyclopedia
		Serena Butler is the daughter of the president of the Human League, who was captured by the forces of Omnius, the evermind, during a peace mission and sent to Earth.
		Pregnant with Vladimir Harkonnen's son, she is given as an investigatory subject to Erasumus, a semi-independent robot, for study.
		But she is betrayed by other Jihad leaders, who fearing she could end the Jihad and thus remove them from power, instruct her bodyguards to kill her if she appears to be succeeding in her mission.
	members.cox.net /gbutler3/dune/index.htm (1082 words)

	The Dune Prequels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place.
		Synchronized Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of struggle, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight.
		Some - like idealistic Serena Butler of the free planet Salusa Secundus and her betrothed, the soldier Xavier Harkonnen - even dream of overthrowing the machines and freeing their human slaves.
	www.arrakis.co.uk /prequels.html (892 words)

	Iblis Ginjo - Dune - A Wikia wiki
		With advice from the ancient philosopher and Cogitor Eklo, Iblis learned that the most effective way of succeeding would be to use religion as a weapon.
		When he saw Erasmus kill Manion Butler the Innocent, the infant of the captive Serena Butler, he started the massive revolt on Earth, and the major precursor to the Butlerian Jihad.
		After arriving on Salusa Secundus, the capital of the League of Nobles, Ginjo managed to manipulate his way into nobility, and claimed the title of Grand Patriarch of the Holy Jihad, as the spiritual head of the League.
	dune.wikia.com /wiki/Iblis_Ginjo (653 words)

	Dune: The Machine Crusade \| Book Reviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		In form, the novel is composed of hundreds of jump cuts among dozens of characters, and so perhaps the best way to summarize it is to follow the threads of each major protagonist, acknowledging that these narrative threads cross and recross.
		At the political and military heart of the League of human worlds stand Serena Butler, the mother of the Jihad against the thinking machines, and Iblis Ginjo, her minister.
		After a long retreat from the management of day-to-day affairs, Serena experiences a revelation that she should resume tighter control of the Jihad.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/books/sfw10105.html (1067 words)

	The Machine Crusade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The struggle against thinking robots has ground on for years, the forces led by Serena Butler have made only slight gains, and the human worlds grow weary of war.
		The child's mother, Serena Butler, is still the spiritual leader of the Jihadi, and the former slave foreman Iblis Ginjo is their political and military organizer.
		In a desperate move to save the Jihad and the millions of enslaved humans on machine-dominated worlds, Serena goes as the sole ambassador of peace to Omnius' stronghold on the planet Corrin.
	www.booklan.com /books_on_cd/general/book_2662.html (1114 words)

	dragonsworn [book review] - The Machine Crusade, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Vorian also journeys to the planet of Caladan, and we see the shaping of events that will establish house Atreides for millenia to come.
		Serena Butler herself (she of the Jihad) has become absolutely two dimensional.
		Harkonnen and Butler are no longer main characters, and the focus has shifted to a series of shallow characters too numerous to count.
	www.dragonsworn.com /reviews/books/machinecrusade.html (838 words)

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	Amazon.com: "Manion Butler": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Viceroy Manion Butler had privately counseled her to he subtle,...
		Ten violent years after the atomic destruction of Earth, old Manion Butler had retired as League Viceroy, asking that his daughter Serena be appointed to take his place.
		Ours is the family line of Serena, and of Viceroy Manion Butler- yet you prefer to associate yourself with a...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Manion-Butler (270 words)

	Baptist Collegiate Ministries - Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The BCM Lounge, also known as Butler Hall, is where we are located at.
		It is a great place to study, work on projects, and just hang out.
		Our campus minister, Serena Butler, is usually there during the mornings and afternoons.
	www.baptistcollegiateministries.org /map.html (147 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Dune: The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
		Finally, we see how Serena Butler's passionate grief ignites the war that will liberate humans from their machine masters.
		We learn the circumstances of the betrayal that made mortal enemies of House Atreides and House Harkonnen; and we experience the Battle of Corrin that created a galactic empire that lasted until the reign of Emperor Shaddam IV.
		Among them are Xavier Harkonnen, military leader of the Planet of Salusa Secundus; Xavier's fiancée, Serena Butler, an activist who will become the unwilling leader of millions; and Tio Holtzman, the scientist struggling to devise a weapon that will help the human cause.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/ebook6601.htm (1175 words)

	Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
		Encouraged by a brilliant young military commander named Xavier Harkonnen and his beautiful-but-equally-brilliant fiancée, Serena Butler, the League Worlds hold out a slim hope that they can resist the inexorable advance of Omnius.
		When Serena is captured by the Titans and enslaved on Earth, she meets Vorian Atreides, the son of the chief Titan Agamemnon and a trustee of Omnius.
		Merely hinted at is the great Jihad that overthrew the Thinking Machines thousands of years ago - a Jihad that took its name from its most famous hero - Serena Butler.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Sep02/jihad.htm (645 words)

	Reviews of Fantasy and Science Fiction Books -- Writers Write -- The IWJ
		Serena Butler, the murder of whose son Manion by the robot Erasmus sparked the human rebellion, is still the spiritual leader of the humans, although she spends much of her time in seclusion, being manipulated by former slave foreman and self-proclaimed political guru, Iblis Ginjo.
		So when Omnius makes a surprising offer of peace, Serena Butler is given a terrible choice to make.
		Meanwhile, the brilliant physicist Norma Cava is about to make her discovery that will change the world -- she will discover how to fold space time.
	www.writerswrite.com /journal/oct03/fansf3.htm (968 words)

	Powell's Books - Dune #1: Dune: The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert
		Throughout the Dune novels, Frank Herbert frequently referred to the war in which humans wrested their freedom from "thinking machines." 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.
		Finally, we see how Serena Butler's passionate grief ignites the struggle that will liberate humans from their machine masters; here is the amazing tale of the Zensunni Wanderers, who escape bondage to flee to the desert world where they will declare themselves the Free Men of Dune.
		And here is the backward, nearly forgotten planet of Arrakis, where traders have discovered the remarkable properties of the spice melange....
	www.powells.com /biblio/2-0765340771-1 (377 words)

	Amazon.com: "Serena Butler": Key Phrase page (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		See all pages with references to Serena Butler.
		Serena Butler's Jihad had already been in full force for more than two decades.
		Serena Butler stepped onto the oratory stage in the great Hall of Parliament.
	www.amazon.com.cob-web.org:8888 /phrase/Serena-Butler (438 words)

	Dune (series of novels) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In Niubbe Hospital, Vorian Atreides is attacked by a sick Martyrist (The Battle of Corrin I.25§38 p.102):
		lifting banners and pennants that were embroidered or stained with images of Serena Butler and Manion the Innocent.
		A simplified design is suggested later on: When addressing the Hall of Parliament in Zimia, in 88 B.G., Rayna Butler (The Battle of Corrin II.96§36 p.572):
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fic_dune.html (1458 words)

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