Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
177 B.G. (Before Guild)
Leading a group of five…
Since the exodus of all…
Zimia was a stunning city…
Inside a coffin of perfect…
The greatest enemies of…
When the Jihad fleet passed…
Standing just inside the…
On Poritrin, the extravagant…
While the swarm of new ships…
Wherever she was, whatever…
After a decade of…
The spice caravans moved…
Ignoring Rhengalid's cold…
Now that Agamemnon and his…
A light afternoon rain…
Lounging in the command…
Trapped within a bubble of…
High inside the Cogitor's…
On the open-air stage of…
The island in Ginaz's…
Looking carefully across…
176 B.G.
When Norma Cenva's…
After a year of massive…
The extravagant “hollow…
Two days after his water…
The robot Erasmus…
Teach me to kill machines.
From a grassy promontory…
Beatific, proud, and…
For Xavier Harkonnen, the…
As their numbers dwindled,…
With the Grand Patriarch…
Aliid considered his friend…
175 B.G.
Primero Harkonnen did not…
After Xavier and his battle…
After dutifully completing…
Far above Earth's solar…
Raising children should not…
Iblis Ginjo was trapped, as…
While Primero Harkonnen's…
When Ix shuddered under the…
Memories.
Deeply moved by the loss…
Ah, the profits must flow,…
Now that she was no longer…
Beneath the cave overhang…
174 B.G.
Since his days riding with…
Salusa Secundus glimmered…
Even after centuries of…
They were visitors from…
As tall as the buildings of Zimia…
At least the disaster…
For well over a year…
Even sophisticated cooling…
On the Synchronized World…
The good-humored soldier who…
Before morning light pierced…
A total loss.…
As if on cue, the blood red…
As he guided the band of…
Undoubtedly there were…
Without a sound in the…
One of Norma's urgent…
Pain and fear made time…
And now there were three.
The Grand Patriarch of the…
When Vorian Atreides…
When he returned from his…
His first morning on…
Irritated but curious, Zufa…
The master mercenary sat on…
Outside the Jihad Council…
Since the outpost colony of…
Erasmus paced in his study,…
Serena invited Rajid Suk, a…
173 B.G.
If Agamemnon had still…
After five lean months,…
By the time the Jihad…
No more than four months…
Erasmus had been accused of…
Each of the big black…
Which choice will you make?
Now that the Zensunni…
166 B.G.
In the thirty-sixth year of…
This is going to hurt me…
High above the restless…
After more than seven years…
A cold, bleak planetoid…
After the Titans…
165 B.G.
In the thirty-seventh year…
Wet from summer rain…
Inside a spaceport tower on…
Across countless star…
164 B.G.
In years, the desert nomads…
Erasmus had never considered…
Sitting beneath the dome of…
Shortly after Venport and…
Iblis Ginjo rolled over and…
Convinced that Serena…
It was meant only as a…
At Zimia Spaceport, Xavier…
When Serena Butler arrived…
Disaster struck on their…
Late at night, the master…
Though her bodyremained…
People all across the…
Before long, everyfree…
Understanding the importance…
Erasmus stood atop a black…
Following Serena's…
The Tlulaxa representatives…
Like a man in a daze…
Throughout the ebb and…
When they left Tlulax…
Immense bulbous shapes…
Bruised and heartsick after…
Ten years ago, Marha, Jafar…
Appendix
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