{"product_id":"dune-movie-tiein-isbn-9780593640333","title":"Dune (Movie Tie-In)","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet on the desert planet Arrakis, \u003ci\u003eDune\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Paul Atreides−who would become known as Maud'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, \u003ci\u003eDune\u003c\/i\u003e won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I know nothing comparable to it except \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e.”—Arthur C. Clarke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is possible that \u003ci\u003eDune\u003c\/i\u003e is even more relevant now than when it was first published.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“An astonishing science fiction phenomenon.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the monuments of modern science fiction.”—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Powerful, convincing, and most ingenious.”—Robert A. Heinlein\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Herbert’s creation of this universe, with its intricate development and analysis of ecology, religion, politics and philosophy, remains one of the supreme and seminal achievements in science fiction.”—\u003ci\u003eLouisville Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Herbert\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of the Dune saga. He was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs—including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter and editor of several West Coast newspapers—before becoming a full-time writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1952, Herbert began publishing science fiction with “Looking for Something?” in \u003ci\u003eStartling Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. But his emergence as a writer of major stature did not occur until 1965, with the publication of \u003ci\u003eDune\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eDune Messiah\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChildren of Dune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGod Emperor of Dune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeretics of Dune\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChapterhouse: Dune\u003c\/i\u003e followed, completing the saga that the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e would call “one of the monuments of modern science fiction.” Herbert is also the author of some twenty other books, including \u003ci\u003eThe White Plague\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Dosadi Experiment\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDestination: Void\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 1986.A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. To begin your study of the life of Muad'Dib, then, take care that you first place him in his time: born in the 57th year of the Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV. And take the most special care that you locate Muad'Dib in his place: the planet Arrakis. Do not be deceived by the fact that he was born on Caladan and lived his first fifteen years there. Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is forever his place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-from \"Manual of Muad'Dib\"\u003cbr\u003eby the Princess Irulan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe old woman was let in by the side door down the vaulted passage by Paul's room and she was allowed a moment to peer in at him where he lay in his bed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 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 shadow-hair like matted spiderwebs, hooded 'round darkness of features, eyes like glittering jewels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Is he not small for his age, Jessica?\" the old woman asked. Her voice wheezed and twanged like an untuned baliset.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul's mother answered in her soft contralto: \"The Atreides are known to start late getting their growth, Your Reverence.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"So I've heard, so I've heard,\" wheezed the old woman. \"Yet he's already fifteen.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes, Your Reverence.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"He's awake and listening to us,\" said the old woman. \"Sly little rascal.\" She chuckled. \"But royalty has need of slyness. And if he's really the Kwisatz Haderach . . . well. . . .\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithin the shadows of his bed, Paul held his eyes open to mere slits. Two bird-bright ovals-the eyes of the old woman-seemed to expand and glow as they stared into his.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sleep well, you sly little rascal,\" said the old woman. \"Tomorrow you'll need all your faculties to meet my gom jabbar.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd she was gone, pushing his mother out, closing the door with a solid thump.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul lay awake wondering: What's a gom jabbar?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn all the upset during this time of change, the old woman was the strangest thing he had seen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour Reverence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd the way she called his mother Jessica like a common serving wench instead of what she was-a Bene Gesserit Lady, a duke's concubine and mother of the ducal heir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs a gom jabbar something of Arrakis I must know before we go there? he wondered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe mouthed her strange words: Gom jabbar . . .  Kwisatz Haderach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere had been so many things to learn. Arrakis would be a place so different from Caladan that Paul's mind whirled with the new knowledge. Arrakis-Dune-Desert Planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThufir Hawat, his father's 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful,\" Hawat had said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArrakis-Dune-Desert Planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul 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 sound-the 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe dream faded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul awoke to feel himself in the warmth of his bed-thinking . . . 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArrakis-Dune-Desert Planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul sensed his own tensions, decided to practice one of the mind-body lessons his mother had taught him. Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness . . . focusing the consciousness . . . aortal dilation . . . avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness . . . to be conscious by choice . . . blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions . . . one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone . . . animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct . . . the animal destroys and does not produce . . . animal pleasures remain close to sensation levels and avoid the perceptual . . . the human requires a background grid through which to see his universe . . . focused consciousness by choice, this forms your grid . . . bodily integrity follows nerve-blood flow according to the deepest awareness of cell needs . . . all things\/cells\/beings are impermanent . . . strive for flow-permanence within. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver and over and over within Paul's floating awareness the lesson rolled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen dawn touched Paul's window sill with yellow light, he sensed it through closed eyelids, opened them, hearing then the renewed bustle and hurry in the castle, seeing the familiar patterned beams of his bedroom ceiling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe hall door opened and his mother peered in, hair like shaded bronze held with black ribbon at the crown, her oval face emotionless and green eyes staring solemnly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You're awake,\" she said. \"Did you sleep well?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe studied the tallness of her, saw the hint of tension in her shoulders as she chose clothing for him from the closet racks. Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way-in the minutiae of observation. She turned, holding a semiformal jacket for him. It carried the red Atreides hawk crest above the breast pocket.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hurry and dress,\" she said. \"Reverend Mother is waiting.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I dreamed of her once,\" Paul said. \"Who is she?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"She was my teacher at the Bene Gesserit school. Now, she's the Emperor's Truthsayer. And Paul. . . .\" She hesitated. \"You must tell her about your dreams.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I will. Is she the reason we got Arrakis?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We did not get Arrakis.\" Jessica flicked dust from a pair of trousers, hung them with the jacket on the dressing stand beside his bed. \"Don't keep Reverend Mother waiting.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul sat up, hugged his knees. \"What's a gom jabbar?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgain, the training she had given him exposed her almost invisible hesitation, a nervous betrayal he felt as fear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJessica crossed to the window, flung wide the draperies, stared across the river orchards toward Mount Syubi. \"You'll learn about . . . the gom jabbar soon enough,\" she said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe heard the fear in her voice and wondered at it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJessica spoke without turning. \"Reverend Mother is waiting in my morning room. Please hurry.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam sat in a tapestried chair watching mother and son approach. Windows on each side of her overlooked the curving southern bend of the river and the green farmlands of the Atreides family holding, but the Reverend Mother ignored the view. She was feeling her age this morning, more than a little petulant. She blamed it on space travel and association with that abominable Spacing Guild and its secretive ways. But here was a mission that required personal attention from a Bene Gesserit-with-the-Sight. Even the Padishah Emperor’s Truthsayer couldn’t evade that responsibility when the duty call came.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDamn that Jessica! the Reverend Mother thought. If only she'd borne us a girl as she was ordered to do!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJessica stopped three paces from the chair, dropped a small curtsy, a gentle flick of left hand along the line of her skirt. Paul gave the short bow his dancing master had taught-the one used \"when in doubt of another's station.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe nuances of Paul's greeting were not lost on the Reverend Mother. She said: \"He's a cautious one, Jessica.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJessica's hand went to Paul's shoulder, tightened there. For a heartbeat, fear pulsed through her palm. Then she had herself under control. \"Thus he has been taught, Your Reverence.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does she fear? Paul wondered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe old woman studied Paul in one gestalten flicker: face oval like Jessica's, but strong bones . . . hair: the Duke's black-black but with browline of the maternal grandfather who cannot be named, and that thin, disdainful nose; shape of directly staring green eyes: like the old Duke, the paternal grandfather who is dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, there was a man who appreciated the power of bravura-even in death, the Reverend Mother thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Teaching is one thing,\" she said, \"the basic ingredient is another. We shall see.\" The old eyes darted a hard glance at Jessica. \"Leave us. I enjoin you to practice the meditation of peace.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJessica took her hand from Paul's shoulder. \"Your Reverence, I-\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jessica, you know it must be done.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul looked up at his mother, puzzled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJessica straightened. \"Yes . . . of course.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul looked back at the Reverend Mother. Politeness and his mother's obvious awe of this old woman argued caution. Yet he felt an angry apprehension at the fear he sensed radiating from his mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Paul. . . .\" Jessica took a deep breath. \". . . this test you're about to receive . . . it's important to me.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Test?\" He looked up at her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Remember that you're a duke's son,\" Jessica said. She whirled and strode from the room in a dry swishing of skirt. The door closed solidly behind her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul faced the old woman, holding anger in check. \"Does one dismiss the Lady Jessica as though she were a serving wench?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA smile flicked the corners of the wrinkled old mouth. \"The Lady Jessica was my serving wench, lad, for fourteen years at school.\" She nodded. \"And a good one, too. Now, you come here!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe command whipped out at him. Paul found himself obeying before he could think about it. Using the Voice on me, he thought. He stopped at her gesture, standing beside her knees.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"See this?\" she asked. From the folds of her gown, she lifted a green metal cube about fifteen centimeters on a side. She turned it and Paul saw that one side was open-black and oddly frightening. No light penetrated that open blackness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Put your right hand in the box,\" she said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFear shot through Paul. He started to back away, but the old woman said: \"Is this how you obey your mother?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe looked up into bird-bright eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSlowly, feeling the compulsions and unable to inhibit them, Paul put his hand into the box. He felt first a sense of cold as the blackness closed around his hand, then slick metal against his fingers and a prickling as though his hand were asleep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA predatory look filled the old woman's features. She lifted her right hand away from the box and poised the hand close to the side of Paul's neck. He saw a glint of metal there and started to turn toward it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stop!\" she snapped.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing the Voice again! He swung his attention back to her face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I hold at your neck the gom jabbar,\" she said. \"The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It's a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don't pull away or you'll feel that poison.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul tried to swallow in a dry throat. He could not take his attention from the seamed old face, the glistening eyes, the pale gums around silvery metal teeth that flashed as she spoke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A duke's son must know about poisons,\" she said. \"It's the way of our times, eh? Musky, to be poisoned in your drink. Aumas, to be poisoned in your food. The quick ones and the slow ones and the ones in between. Here's a new one for you: the gom jabbar. It kills only animals.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePride overcame Paul's fear. \"You dare suggest a duke's son is an animal?\" he demanded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Let us say I suggest you may be human,\" she said. \"Steady! I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand can drive this needle into your neck before you escape me.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Who are you?\" he whispered. \"How did you trick my mother into leaving me alone with you? Are you from the Harkonnens?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Harkonnens? Bless us, no! Now, be silent.\" A dry finger touched his neck and he stilled the involuntary urge to leap away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Good,\" she said. \"You pass the first test. Now, here's the way of the rest of it: If you withdraw your hand from the box you die. This is the only rule. Keep your hand in the box and live. Withdraw it and die.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul took a deep breath to still his trembling. \"If I call out there'll be servants on you in seconds and you'll die.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Servants will not pass your mother who stands guard outside that door. Depend on it. Your mother survived this test. Now it's your turn. Be honored. We seldom administer this to men-children.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCuriosity reduced Paul's fear to a manageable level. He heard truth in the old woman's voice, no denying it. If his mother stood guard out there . . . if this were truly a test. . . . And whatever it was, he knew himself caught in it, trapped by that hand at his neck: the gom jabbar. He recalled the response from the Litany Against Fear as his mother had taught him out of the Bene Gesserit rite.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. 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