Chapterhouse Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 6)
by Frank Herbert
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Author: Frank HerbertEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1987-07-01
ISBN: 0441102670
Number of pages: 435
Publisher: Ace
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Book Review: To escape an enlightened dictatorship is the only way.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the last volume of the saga. The Reverend Mothers of the Bene Gesserit are confronted to the Honored Matres. The twist is the capture of one Honored Matre, in the previous volume, and her training as a Reverend Mother, so that she can join the physical capabilities of the Horored Matres and the psychological and mental capabilities of the Reverend Mothers. So the two hostile orders, after a swift war, with the victory of the Bene Gesserit first, immediately reversed into the victory of the Honored Matres, are joined into one by this ex-captive Honored Matre become Reverend Mother. She hence becomes the leader of both orders and she can fulfill the plan of her predecessors, in the Bene Gesserit as well as of the Honored Matres, in joining the two by teaching diplomacy to the Bene Gesserit and by educating the barbaric Honored Matres. A new phase in the development of both orders will be reached by the synthesis of both, through symbiosis. But we also have the explanation of the origin of the Honored Matres. They are the descendants, in the Scattering, of the Fish Speakers who were the guards of the Tyrant Leto II issued from the religion of the sister of Muabdib, the father of Leto II. This religion, dominated by a woman, was an administrative democracy turned dictotarial, and in the Great Scattering that followed the death of the Tyrant Leto II, these Fish Speakers that Leto II had recuperated from his « aunt » join forces with wild Reverend Mothers and Scattered Reverend Mothers. They joined the physical power of the Fish Speakers and the sexual obsession of the Abomination who created the religion from which they originated. They, on the other side, neglected the mental element of the Reverend Mothers, the Bene Gesserit, by being cut from this Bene Gesserit. So they are mentally underdeveloped and they are only aiming at controling the world through violence, that they had brought to an unrivaled level, and sex. They turned criminal and conquering when they were pushed back, into the Old Empire, from the Scattering by new beings probably created by some genetic manipulation devised by the Bene Tleilaxu, the famous Futars (half cats and half men) that can only behave, have a coherent action if they have their Handlers behind, these Handlers being the humans who are programed to control them. This plan succeeds, but four people refuse it and decide to escape : the last Tleilaxu Master who was the prisoner of the Bene Gesserit and never submitted (he carries a whole bank of ghola cells that he managed to keep secret from the Bene Gesserit) ; the last Ghola of Idaho Duncan who had always refused to submit to the Bene Gesserit and willfully take part in their plans, though he helped them but always as a prisoner and because of his « love » for the ex-Honored Matre turned Reverend Mother ; the last descendant of Leto II, the Tyrant, who has the power to dominate the sandworms, who saved one from Dune when Dune was destroyed, and who started reviving the worm civilization on Chapter House, with the benediction of the Bene Gesserit, but also as a well-hidden challenge to that Bene Gesserit, and she takes a few of those « baby » worms to the Scattering with her ; and finally the ghola of Teg Miles, the Bashar of the Bene Gesserit who managed their final attack and victory turned defeat and then turned victory back again. In other words the last remnants of the Atreides family escape from the new order of the alliance between the Reverend Mothers of the Bene Gesserit and the Honored Matres. When the mental powers of the Bene Gesserit are joined to the physical and sexual powers of the Honored Matres, leading to an enlightened dictatorship, the only sensible attitude is to escape and fly away, and there are always some accomplices in such a situation. So they succeed. We will never know the following phase, that is to say the foreseeable confrontation of the new Bene Gesserit and Honored Matres order on one hand and the new civilization the escapees are going to produce in the Scattering. But well, a saga is never finished. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.
Summary of Chapterhouse Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 6)
The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world--and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile.
Here is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death. A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever...
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