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SUMMARY:DUNE & DUNE MESSIAH - Frank Herbert - Mr President's 4th Annual Xma
 s Book Choice
DESCRIPTION:Every penny of all dues paid to this meeting is being donated t
 o Macmillan Cancer Care (http://www.macmillan.org.uk/)\, who do amazing wo
 rk supporting and caring for people with cancer and their families. The or
 ganiser\, Your Glorious Leader ®\, will be making up the PayPal Dues.\nPl
 ease help support Macmillan by reading a truly great book.\n\n\n\nJust lik
 e the previous four years we will be having only one December meeting\, on
  our usual second Monday of the month\, and I am very pleased to announce 
 that once again it's chosen by our President the late great Mr Iain M. Ban
 ks. And this time Your Glorious Leader ® won't talk him out of his first 
 choice by saying 'don't be afraid to pick something challenging for us'.\n
 \nOnly 50 places available for one single meeting to discuss...\n\nhttp://
 m.cdn.blog.hu/sf/sf/image/Herbert\,Frank.jpgFrank Herbert's DUNE is one of
  the most widely praised & awarded works in the English language. Layered 
 with religious and cultural symbolism Dune surpassed people's expectations
  of SF and became a cultural touchstone for a generation who were explorin
 g ideas of consciousness and discovering SF for the first time. It has bee
 n in print continuously since it's first publication fifty years ago in 19
 65.\n\nThis Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a dese
 rt planet called Arrakis\, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a b
 yzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange\, the 
 'spice of spices'. Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and also g
 rants psychic powers and longevity\, so whoever controls it wields great i
 nfluence.\n\nThe troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred
  by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Hark
 onnens don't want to give up their privilege\, though\, and through sabota
 ge and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's 
 harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen\, a tribe of d
 esert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim
  what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides\, though\, is far more than just a u
 surped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic exper
 iment designed to breed a superhuman--he might be a messiah. His struggle 
 is at the centre of a nexus of powerful people and events\, and the reperc
 ussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.\n\nDune is one of the most f
 amous science fiction novels ever written\, and deservedly so. The setting
  is elaborate and ornate\, the plot labyrinthine and the adventures exciti
 ng. Five sequels by Frank Herbert follow this novel. And some truly awful 
 'sequels' by Frank Herbert's son and Kevin J. Anderson.\n\nDon't read them
 \, they're shit.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery penny of all dues paid to this meeti
 ng is being donated to Macmillan Cancer Care\, who do amazing work support
 ing and caring for people with cancer and their families. The organiser\, 
 Your Glorious Leader ®\, will be making up the PayPal Dues.\nPlease help 
 support Macmillan by reading a great book.\n\nhttp://www.macmillan.org.uk
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