The Dune Encyclopedia

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• jerf · Aug 21, 2014 · Recommends

  Oh, yeah, one more thing: If you're a big fan, you may want to consider the Dune Encyclopedia: http://www.amazon.com/Dune-Encyclopedia-Authorized-Masterpie... It was rendered non-canonical by either God Emperor or Chapterhouse, but it's full of interesting stuff if you're the sort that can get…

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• eli_gottlieb · Oct 29, 2013 · Recommends

  Tell me, have you read the original Dune and the accompanying Dune Encyclopedia? They're basically the foundations of the fictional science of terraforming ecology.

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• jonah-archive · Jan 27, 2023 · Recommends

  IMHO the Dune Encyclopedia (written in collaboration with Frank Herbert) does a much better job elucidating aspects of the Dune Universe in an interesting way than Brian's books do -- there's a narrative thread that weaves through…

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• carapace · Oct 23, 2021 · Mentions

  One of the interesting details not mentioned in the book (it's in either one of the appendices or in the Dune Encyclopedia) is that the wings are powered by muscles, not engines. It's an aspect of the minimal use of technology in that Universe.

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• duskwuff · Feb 18, 2022 · Mentions

  > I remember being told that it was compiled from his notes but I guess that was mistaken. You may be confusing the Dune Encyclopedia with Brian Herbert's novels, which he claims are based on his father's notes (but probably aren't). Frank Herbert actually wrote a foreword to the Dune Encyclopedia, in which he noted that: "I must…

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• JonnieCache · Aug 1, 2013 · Mentions

  Note to self: set up own pricing bot to bid rare books down to cheap rates and then snap them up. Finally that copy of the Dune Encyclopedia will be mine! EDIT: Apparently it can be had for only £15 now. How depressing.

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• mmcdermott · Oct 27, 2021 · Mentions

  …of the book, like the one I read, have a large glossary in the back to simplify matters), but never really get a thorough explanation of the world we are in. I think this is one of the reasons that the Dune Encyclopedia was so popular early on. It's telling that Tolkien never really worked on the Middle Earth guidebooks, but Herbert did. The Chronicles of Amber flat-out rocked.

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• Thrombocius · Oct 17, 2026 · Mentions

  …setting, it could have very easily been a religious movement against a useful technology that got out of hand. Like Space ISIS blowing up Petra, or a “what would happen if the Luddites won” scenario. The Dune Encyclopedia, which was not written by him but which he said he considered canonical, says the whole thing was incited when an AI doctor flagged a Bene Gesserit’s baby for abortion due to an alleged genetic defect.…

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• magicalist · Oct 17, 2026 · Mentions

  > The Dune Encyclopedia, which was not written by him but which he said he considered canonical No, he literally wrote in the intro to the book that it wasn't canon. It was a fan project and he thought that it was great there…

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