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Dune Encyclopedia

Cheers Crysknife :cheers:

Has anyone read it all?

I only looked a bit in the history table with the dates, I couldn't continue it.

That's as far as I got! I've also read a few other pages but I really dislike this book. The reason I hate it most of all is that people often refer to it when talking about Dune, but fail to relize that it was written between the events of God Emperor and Heretics of Dune so it misses out the facts of the last two novels! I've been told because of this Frank Herbert contradicts parts of the DE but as of yet I can't give any examples.

It's ok as a piece of fan fiction but nothing more, and it is written very well. I can probably enjoy this if I can get into the mindset that this is a stand alone book and not part of the Dune series.

It was actually written before GEoD was published allthough the compiler, Dr. McNelley got an advanced copy.

I believe it was intended to be read as if it was written by historians in the Duniverse, after the discovery of Dar-es-ballat.

It cannot be taken as canon but it is a fun read. I agree that it was writen as one of our history books would have been...some things get distorted through time and stories can change.

I have read most of it. And some parts are less interesting than watching paint dry, but others are fascinating.

There are some humor articles, too--such as the journal of a Bene Gesserit sister who wins a free vacation for two to an exotic resort planet. She has a vacation unlike anything she ever imagined... ;)

There are illustrations of various House symbols, crests, and insignias.

The author includes a speculative list of many of the Duncan Idaho gholas, and how they died or why they were replaced.

The reason I wish Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson had used the Encyclopedia as source material for their novels is because it gives a much more believable rationale for the origins of the Butlerian Jihad, and the Fremens' early years on Dune when they were trying to adapt to such alien conditions.

There is even sheet music for Gurney's songs, though it's small and hard to make out.

I read it, and thought it makes sense. I just wish there were another Dune encyclopedia for the years after GEoD, that would be too cool.

One big plus was that it was really written like an encyclopedia that has its resources in Dune world, so quoting Dune authors, that was one more piece to the fun. :)

Aaa, I think I'm gonna love Russian sites :P (even if I read it time before, finding there's an easy comfortable link and not just Torrents of DE calms my mind)

I actually own this book in hardcover... And have read very little of it.

Someone with dune encyclopedia
on ebay.co.uk
item number 120047938546

You know, when I first read the DE even I (who loves that book) had a hard time swallowing the notion that the death of one baby started the Butlerian Jihad. But when I thought about it some more, it seemed to me to be saying that the war may have been started by the death of one baby, but it was the fact that those in power were testing fetus' and aborting the ones that show potential to grow into great leaders that kept the war going and allowed it to spread from planet to planet.

I really like how that synchs with the notion of the test of humanity that Mohiam gave Paul in the beginning of Dune (I know, totally my interpretation, but its what I think). Ive been run up the flagpole for suggesting this before, but I thought that the testing that the BG were doing was to weed out those whose genetic histories contained multiple generations of those selected by the machine users for survival; IOW those who are less likely to be bright, less likely to lead, and less likely to assert themselves. They were the "animals" that the BG were trying to keep out of their breeding program and out the gene pool in general.