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desert planet of Arrakis has begun to grow green and lush, The lifegiving spice is abundant, The nineyearold royal twins, possesing their father's supernatural powers, are being groomed as Messiahs,
But there are those who think the Imperium does not need messiahs, . . The conventional wisdom seems to be that only the first Dune book is good and that the rest of them are awful, but I've found this to definitely not be the case.
Thisrd book in the series was gripping and exciting, . . I literally couldn't put it down! Don't listen to what everyone else says, read these books for yourself and make your own decision, . . you won't be disappointed! This one focuses on the children of Muad'Dib, as well as his sister Alia, wifeinnameonly Irulan, and the return of his mother Jessica to the political goingson of Arrakis and the struggles with the almost cultlike religion that has sprung up around his supposed death and his sister as its new figurehead.
Behind the scenes there is all sorts of plotting and doubledealing between a whole host of characters and factions, and the shocking revelations from the middle of the book on make this book one of the best in the series, and it wrapsup the first trilogy of books and this time period with a bang!

”I must not fear.

Fear is the mindkiller,
Fear is the littledeath 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, . . Only I will remain. "

If you have read at least sitelinkDune you must be familiar with the above “Litany Against Fear”, I dont know about you but it gets old very fast for me, When it shows up in Children of Dune I read it like “I must not fear, Fear is the mindkiller. ” SHUT UP! Fortunately it only appears once but Mr, Herbert still sneaks in the odd snippet here and there whenever I am feeling too complacent,

To my mind the Dune series really finishes with this third volume, It ties up all the loose ends nicely and ends on an optimistic and suitably poignant note, Come to think of it the very first Dune novel feels very complete within itself, and you could read it as one of the greatest standalone scifi novels of all time or one of the most overrated if it doesnt do it for you.


So the Atreides are at it again with their mystical shenanigan, These Atreides are so damn verbose/, I swear none of them is capable of speaking like a normal person, I can not imagine how they say “pass the salt” at dinner without mentioning the cosmic ramifications should the salt passing project not be successfully concluded.
That said Children of Dune is actually quite an entertaining read, much more so than sitelinkDune Messiah which often had a soporific effect on me when I was reading it.
Children of Dune focuses on the two Atreides kids, Leto and Ghanima or nonkids because their heads are stuffed full of their ancestors memories and it makes them super weird.
Their father, the legendary Paul Atreides A, K. A. MuadDib walked off into the sunset of the Arrakis desert nine years ago, very pissed off about what the world has come to thanks to his leadership.
He is now presumed dead as the Dune desert is deadly and not conducive to a pleasant stroll after dinner,

The planet Arrakis has come a long way since we first encountered it in sitelinkDune the terraforming project is going well and water is more abundant with plants appearing in some areas, other areas of the global desert is becoming moist.
Rains and

clouds are often seen and early in the novel eight Fremen drown in a flashflood, When you have a culture based on the scarcity of water this development really turns the world upside down, The cultural and social ramifications of Arrakis becoming more watery are the most fascinating aspect of the book for me,

The book starts off slowly as most books do with the introduction of the Atreides twins and ambles along pleasantly enough, At almost exactly the half way point Mr, Herbert suddenly shifts gears and the novel becomes much more plot intensive and relatively fast paced, Exciting things are certainly afoot in the second half the the novel featuring a murder plot involving tigers, a possession that makes you fat, the birth of a sort of Duneman superhero and many spoilerish things that I wont mention probably said too much already sorry!.


All in all a fun read, there is plenty of subtexts and philosophy to think about if you want to I had my brain switched off, its my standard mode.
The theme of religion and fanaticism is ever present, I dont know if I will go on to read sitelinkGod Emperor of Dune and the subsequent volumes, I am afraid of coming across the Litany Against Fear again, The Dune series is remarkable in that each sequel gets progressively worse until it's unreadable,

The first book is truly excellent, It's mantra on fear alone makes it great,

The second book a very good scifi novel,

The third book is merely okay,

The fourth book is subpar, but still interesting,

The fifth book is a pain in the ass to read,

The sixth book will leave you concerned about the author's health, so terribad is the writing,

But hey, the first book kicks ass! that lastpages or so was just wild, But a good wild Children of Dune Dune, Frank Herbert
Children of Dune is ascience fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the third in his Dune series of six novels.
At the end of Dune Messiah, Paul Atreides walks into the desert, a blind man, leaving his twin children Leto and Ghanima in the care of the Fremen, while his sister Alia rules the universe as regent.
Awakened in the womb by the spice, the children are the heirs to Paul's prescient vision of the fate of the universe, a role that Alia desperately craves.
House Corrino schemes to return to the throne, while the Bene Gesserit make common cause with the Tleilaxu and Spacing Guild to gain control of the spice and the children of Paul Atreides.


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داستان تلماسه در آینده ای دور میگذرد و در جامعه ای ملوک الطوایفی که با الهام از جوامع اعراب بدوی ساخته شده است. سه عامل اثرگذار در این جامعه فراسیاره ای عبارتند از: پادشاه امپراتور صدام چهارم و خاندانهای حکومتی اتحادیه فضایی صاحب انحصار حمل و نقل فضایی و گروه بنی جزریت. پس از جهاد بزرگ باتلری ساخت و ایجاد دستگاههای خودکار و رایانه ها تابو شده بنابراین جوامع انسانی مجبور به افزایش تواناییهای جسمی و ذهنی انسانها با استفاده از پرورش نژاد و نیروهای مرموز ماده ای به نام اسپایس ملانژ یا ادویه شده اند. ملانژ ماده ای است که قادر است نیروهای ذهنی آدمی را تا حد بسیار زیادی افزایش دهد حتی در مواردی میتواند باعث ایجاد پیش آگاهی از وقایع آینده و طی الارض شود. ملانژ تنها در سیاره بیابانی و بسیار خشک آراکیس اقتباس از نام عراق یافت میشود. خشکی آراکیس به حدی است که مردم آن فرمنها برای از دست نرفتن رطوبت بدن مجبورند از جامه های مخصوصی استفاده کنند و آب در آنجا ارزشمندترین چیز است. ملانژ را ماسه کرمهای آراکیس میسازند و استخراج کنندگان ادویه علاوه بر جنگ دایمی با آب و هوای وحشتناک این سیاره مجبورند گاه و بیگاه با آنها هم سر و کله بزنند. ماسه کرمهایی که قطر آنها گاهی به بیست متر هم میرسد. آب حیات نیز از همین موجودات استخراج میشود. ماجرای اصلی رمان نبرد بین سه خاندان بزرگ آتریید هارکونن و کورینو خاندان صاحب مقام امپراتوری بر سر تصاحب این سیاره و زندگینامه قهرمان افسانه ای فرمنها پل مودیب است. خاندان امپراتوری تسلط خود را با کمک نیروی نظامی هولناکی به نام ساردوکار بر عالم مسکون حفظ میکند. ساردوکارها از کودکی آموزش میبینند که بیرحم باشند و در نبرد از هیچ عملی فروگذار نکنند. گروه بنی جزریت هم از سوی دیگر برنامه ای دیگر برای خود تدارک دارند. آنها نسلهاست که اذهان مردم را با اعتقاداتی مذهبی اسیر کرده اند و برنامه ای دقیق و حساب شده برای کنترل نژادی نسل انسانها دارند. هدف آنها تولد کویساتزهادراچ است که بر عالم حکومت کند. آترییدها جزو محبوبترین خاندانهای حکومتی هستند. پادشاه امپراتور صدام چهارم که از قدرت آترییدها هراسان شده و به خاطر ترس از اعضای درباری لندزراد نمیتواند خود مستقیما علیه آنها وارد عمل شود کنترل منابع ملانژ در آراکیس را از بارون ولادیمیر هارکونن بزرگ خاندان هارکونن و دشمن قدیمی دوک آتریید میگیرد و به آترییدها میسپارد. دوک لتو آتریید سرور خاندان آتریید آراکیس را با وجود آب و هوای خشک و سختش سرزمین خوبی میبیند زیرا امید دارد ارتشی از فرمنها که زندگی در آراکیس آنها را سخت و خشن و شکستناپذیر کرده بسازد تا با گارد ترسناک پادشاه امپراتور سارژوکار برابری کنند. از سوی دیگر پسر دوک آتریید پاول و وارث بارون هارکونن فیضروتا هر دو از پروردگان برنامه بنی جزریت هستند. تنها با این اشکال که طبق برنامه بنجزریت پاول باید دختر به دنیا میآمد تا از فیدروتا هارکونن کوییساتزهادراچ را به دنیا بیاورد. اما سرپیچی مادر پاول لیدی جسیکا این برنامه را بره زده است . ا. شربیانی.