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Red Plague is a short story in the 2017 anthology Tales of Dune: Expanded Edition.
Synopsis[]
Eighty years after the final defeat of the thinking machines, the human race began to build the Imperium under the Corrinos, who took their name from the victory at the Battle of Corrin. In the Schools of Dune trilogy — Sisterhood of Dune, Mentats of Dune, and Navigators of Dune — we told the saga of the formation of the seminal schools, the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the Mentat human computers, and the Spacing Guild and the Navigators. The core of this trilogy is the war between faith and reason, fanaticism vs science. After centuries of the Jihad, and previous centuries of enslavementby computers and thinking machines, the Butlerian fanatics led by Manford Torondo want to destroy any hint of high technology, even where it is beneficial to humanity, while the rational demagogue Josef Venport wants to advance humanity by controlling and exploiting technology. Venport and Manford become mortal enemies, a clash of fundamentally opposed philosophies. In this story, after the fledgling Imperium has been torn in half by civil war, the fanatics have to decide whether to accept help for a dying population, if it means admitting the benefits of science.
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Characters[]
- Josef Venport
- Manford Torondo
- Anari Idaho
- Draigo Roget
- Rohan Zim
- Rayna Butler
- Roderick Corrino
- Salvador Corrino
- Serena Butler