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"I wish you to take three men and go to the slavemaster," the Baron said. "Garrote the slavemaster. Bring his body to me when you've finished that I may see it was done properly. We cannot have such inept chess players in our employ."

"Full moon calls thee,
Shai-hulud shalt thou see;
Red the night, dusky sky,
Bloody death didst thou die.
We pray to a moon: she is round,
Luck with us will then abound;
What we seek for shall be found
In the land of solid ground."

A new sound began to impress itself on them: a muted whisper, a hissing, an abrasive slithering.
"Worm," Paul said.

Few creatures in science fiction are as fascinating as the sandworms of Dune...

The words of the inscription were a plea to those leaving Arrakis, but they fell with dark import on the eyes of a boy who had just escaped a close brush with death. They said: "O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers."

This book is in some ways even better than I remembered. And all the chapter introductions, the writings of the Princess Irulan, are just wonderful.

There was Gurney Halleck, the troubadour-warrior. There was Thufir Hawat, the old Mentat Master of Assassins, who struck fear even into the heart of the Padishah Emperor. There were Duncan Idaho, the Swordmaster of the Ginaz; Dr. Wellington Yueh, a name black in treachery but bright in knowledge; the Lady Jessica, who guided her son in the Bene Gesserit Way, and of course - the Duke Leto.

Oh, the nostalgia.

Time for the one thing I almost never do when it comes to reading: a re-read!