Word: fremen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dune was written in 1965, won the Hugo and Nebula awards as best science fiction novel of the year, and rapidly became an underground cult classic. In 1969, a sequel appeared, Dune Messiah, the further adventures of Paul Atreides, Muad'Dib, and Emperor of the Fremen. Now Herbert has presented us with another, final tale of Arrakis, the Dune planet--a sort of a sequel to a sequel. Like most sequels, Children of Dune recalls the worst things about the first two books...
...relationships would be like in the future--was Herbert's Dune. Dune is a swashbuckler of a novel built around the desperate plight of the imperial family, the Atrides, on Arrakis, and their attempt to win the emperor's throne. With this novel, Herbert created a masterful pastiche of Fremen, the inhabitants of Arrakis and the best fighters in the universe, Mentats, human computers, and the royal witches of the Bene Gesserit. Dune follows Paul Atreides as he becomes leader of the Fremen, wins control of the addictive spice-drug melange, which gives longevity and prescient vision to its users...
...growth of the empire has blunted the terrible purpose. The Fremen have grown used to the luxuries of empire and have moved from the open desert to the towns and begun to forget the cautions which the desert taught them. They have begun to waste water, formerly the worst sin in desert society...
...main character of the first book is the planet Arrakis, a mystifying desert waste which has never been fully mapped or understood by those who call themselves its rulers. The planet's true owners, the Fremen, are a tribe who exist in total secrecy on the face of the desert. Their terrible purpose-to change the planet's ecology totally and transform it into a fertile land-is the force which transforms Paul Atreides into Muad'dib, a semidivine military leader who eventually topples the Emperor and becomes master of the Galaxy. Melange-an addictive spice grown only on Arrakis...
...prophecies desert him and he must be rescued by his allies. But he has lost his function, for he can no longer trust his prophecies or guide his followers. His terrible purpose fulfilled, he steps free of history and walks to a lonely death in the desert, following the Fremen code that blind men must not burden the tribe...