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Legends of Dune #0.5
Hunting Harkonnens
An original prequel short story to "Dune: The Butlerian Jihad".
20 pages, Paperback
First published August 8, 2002
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August 4, 2024
A short story about Xavier's parents, that adds a some background to his character.
July 1, 2013
This is, so far, the earliest story (chronologically) in the Dune universe, and is a prequel to The Butlerian Jihad, which starts the Legends of Dune series. It's only a short story - about 20 pages, and the backdrop bears no resemblance to the setting of Frank Herbert's classic, except that it features a Harkonnen and the planet Caladan. However, as this is set 10,000 years before the events of Dune, that's not really surprising.
I am giving some thought to reading all the Dune stories in chronological order, but that may have to be put on hold until the Sisterhood of Dune trilogy is finished. There is also the problem that I have never been able to finish the second Dune trilogy (God Emperor, Heretics, and Chapterhouse), despite several attempts.
I am giving some thought to reading all the Dune stories in chronological order, but that may have to be put on hold until the Sisterhood of Dune trilogy is finished. There is also the problem that I have never been able to finish the second Dune trilogy (God Emperor, Heretics, and Chapterhouse), despite several attempts.
June 2, 2024
”Only the cruelty of a human mind could generate enough ruthless hatred to feed a war of extermination for a thousand years.”
The opening scene reminds me of that time when I told my father we don’t think alike and he said to me “how can we? We’re many years apart.”
Wish I could know more about how the main character feels instead of purely narration.
The opening scene reminds me of that time when I told my father we don’t think alike and he said to me “how can we? We’re many years apart.”
Wish I could know more about how the main character feels instead of purely narration.
August 21, 2019
The book was certainly excellent.
July 5, 2023
Me ha gustado mucho, pero es sólo una introducción de todo lo que se viene.
November 20, 2024
Meh. It does set up a nice idea of a story.
July 16, 2025
Pues da una buena cantidad de información del lore, que sera bastante útil para cuando comience con "La Yihad Butleriana"
March 3, 2024
for some super smart robot/cyborg alliance which conquered almost the entire known universe, they are really stupid..
May 22, 2025
El relato me ha gustado. Es entretenido y muy interesante y tiene un final inesperado.
April 4, 2022
Dune is a complex novel, with literary depth and prose that rewards careful reading. This short story is so simplistic, it feels as if it would have been better suited as a short story in a Doctor Who annual.
I was hoping to read the books in chronological order, but this is barely even YA level. I’ll try one more and see if we can get past Janet and John.
I was hoping to read the books in chronological order, but this is barely even YA level. I’ll try one more and see if we can get past Janet and John.
April 27, 2025
Un corto relato anterior a The Butlerian Jihad que sirve de contexto expandido para la historia de la familia de Xavier Harkonnen. Interesante el destino de uno de sus hermanos, dado por muerto.
Se puede prescindir de este texto, aunque suma anecdóticamente al lore de Dune.
Se puede prescindir de este texto, aunque suma anecdóticamente al lore de Dune.
March 21, 2024
tuve q abrir notas para no perderme entre la marea de nombre pero pude sobrellevarlo. m gustaron las descripciones específicas de los paisajes futuristas planetarios. tambn esas persecuciones estuvieron de alto impacto ! 1 buen comienzo cortico, trancaito pa comenzá una saga interminable como los granos de arena en una duna desértica, get it ? aaaaunq un poco paternalista con la representación aborigen (“primitivos”), no podía faltar !
January 2, 2020
Best story within 35pages interested me
September 10, 2024
Idk what the purpose of this short story was but anyways
April 16, 2023
Not too bad! If you want to get into reading "Dune" and want to understand the universe, this is a pretty good starting point!
I had the choice of going straight into reading the "Dune" series, starting with the first book. However, I wanted to understand what the universe consists of, and I managed to get that with this 20-page short story about the Harkonnens family.
On a side note, I do not enjoy the cover, and I look forward to reading the first book in the Legends of Dune series: The Butlerian Jihad.
I had the choice of going straight into reading the "Dune" series, starting with the first book. However, I wanted to understand what the universe consists of, and I managed to get that with this 20-page short story about the Harkonnens family.
On a side note, I do not enjoy the cover, and I look forward to reading the first book in the Legends of Dune series: The Butlerian Jihad.
February 4, 2014
Es bueno para ampliar la jihad buttleriana. A pesar que cronologicamente es el primer libro, no se si valdria la pena leerlo antes que la jihad porque la informacion es muy escueta...
April 27, 2016
My first encounter with Brian's and Kevin Anderson's writing style. The story is alright, but the general tone has a certain je ne sais quoi of ridicule to it.
January 30, 2022
In the Dune series started by Frank Herbert with Dune, continued by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson the opinions about every detail is disputed by the ardent fans.
I don't care. I read the series each as it came out until I lost interest somewhere around Frank's last book or two. My daughter's interest re-sparked my own.
I needed to make sense of it, so I found a chronology from some ardent fan and adopted it as my own, likely with modifications. So now, this is "Dune 1" for me. I don't care if they are short stories or novellas, if or when they fit. It's what I went with, and I am sticking with. If I say this is "Dune x" it is only in my delusions. It may be "Dune Jihad 3"... I have it as Dune 5... Or Dune Schools 2... I have it Dune 8. The names don't change, so you can sort it out. This is "Hunting Harkonnens." You'll find it in the short story in the anthology "Tales of Dune".
In Hunting Harkonnens we are thousands of years before "ground zero" Paul Atreides and the original Dune.
The patriarch of the Harkonnen family, Ulf, has been to the planet Hagal, where he had some financial interests. He had put the business under the management of his son Piers. It is clear Ulf has a very low opinion of his son for losing money with crazy ideas like treating people better than slave meat puppets.
Piers isn't terribly fond of his father's ideology of pure evil, but manages to respect the Harkonnen family ruthlessness, in general. (Squabbling family in space... enter antagonist)
Agamemnon is "Cymek"...
Okay, lets stop and get a few things straight. "The Butlerian Jihad" (novel) is chronologically Dune 02. (In my delusions of the series chronology) Buy the book. In it, you'll find a glossary of the many terms like "Cymek".
Frank Herbert, for brevity's sake, created a whole language and multiple cultural phenomena that readers of the series simply grow to know. It was all the rage when it first came out. Now, this "world building" has been repeated in many great series. [Peter V. Brett](https://www.petervbrett.com/creations/) comes to mind -- it is very popular among writers now.
My point is "Cymek" is one of those things you'll learn. This Agamemnon is a thousand-year-old "Titan". "Brain in a bottle" kind of creature, and he's prowling around the universe like a roaring lion looking for tasty feral humans to conquer.
In this story, Agamemnon & fellow cymeks run across this squabbling Harkonnen family who are on their way back home from picking up Piers from his failed management duties. The Harkonnen family decided to take a side trip to check on business opportunities on Caladan (a key planet in original Dune..., not so much in this one.)
This is a short story in an anthology of short stories, none terribly significant in any series matter. Yet there are things that conflict from some of these stories and the stories told in the novels. I can't help but wonder if those are simple "glitches" in the writing process, or if they are significant at some point.
I don't care. I read the series each as it came out until I lost interest somewhere around Frank's last book or two. My daughter's interest re-sparked my own.
I needed to make sense of it, so I found a chronology from some ardent fan and adopted it as my own, likely with modifications. So now, this is "Dune 1" for me. I don't care if they are short stories or novellas, if or when they fit. It's what I went with, and I am sticking with. If I say this is "Dune x" it is only in my delusions. It may be "Dune Jihad 3"... I have it as Dune 5... Or Dune Schools 2... I have it Dune 8. The names don't change, so you can sort it out. This is "Hunting Harkonnens." You'll find it in the short story in the anthology "Tales of Dune".
In Hunting Harkonnens we are thousands of years before "ground zero" Paul Atreides and the original Dune.
The patriarch of the Harkonnen family, Ulf, has been to the planet Hagal, where he had some financial interests. He had put the business under the management of his son Piers. It is clear Ulf has a very low opinion of his son for losing money with crazy ideas like treating people better than slave meat puppets.
Piers isn't terribly fond of his father's ideology of pure evil, but manages to respect the Harkonnen family ruthlessness, in general. (Squabbling family in space... enter antagonist)
Agamemnon is "Cymek"...
Okay, lets stop and get a few things straight. "The Butlerian Jihad" (novel) is chronologically Dune 02. (In my delusions of the series chronology) Buy the book. In it, you'll find a glossary of the many terms like "Cymek".
Frank Herbert, for brevity's sake, created a whole language and multiple cultural phenomena that readers of the series simply grow to know. It was all the rage when it first came out. Now, this "world building" has been repeated in many great series. [Peter V. Brett](https://www.petervbrett.com/creations/) comes to mind -- it is very popular among writers now.
My point is "Cymek" is one of those things you'll learn. This Agamemnon is a thousand-year-old "Titan". "Brain in a bottle" kind of creature, and he's prowling around the universe like a roaring lion looking for tasty feral humans to conquer.
In this story, Agamemnon & fellow cymeks run across this squabbling Harkonnen family who are on their way back home from picking up Piers from his failed management duties. The Harkonnen family decided to take a side trip to check on business opportunities on Caladan (a key planet in original Dune..., not so much in this one.)
This is a short story in an anthology of short stories, none terribly significant in any series matter. Yet there are things that conflict from some of these stories and the stories told in the novels. I can't help but wonder if those are simple "glitches" in the writing process, or if they are significant at some point.
August 23, 2020
"Hunting Harkonnens" was a good, quick read in the wake of finishing The Twelve earlier today. This is a prequel story to the Legends of Dune trilogy, which is comprised of The Butlerian Jihad, The Machine Crusade and The Battle of Corrin.
I received this novelette directly from Anderson as par of a bundle when I picked up the trilogy earlier this year. I had planned on purchasing them this winter, after I finished Frank Herbert's original six and the updated cover versions of the pair's Prelude to Dune trilogy. (While you shouldn't just a book by its cover, I prefer consistency in my collections; my original Dune books were a mish-mash of SFBC reprints and one mass market version of Dune: House Atriedes with the Stephen Youll cover. I've always liked Stephen Youll's work, and he's done the covers for most of the books penned by Frank Herbert's son Brian and Anderson, but I wasn't fortunate enough to get the originals when they were published and it's only now, with the new film scheduled for release in December that I'm reading the original books again and completing my collection.
The copy I received isn't the one listed here. Instead it is the "free copy" distributed by the publisher prior to the hardcover release of the opening volume, The Butlerian Jihad. And it is an entertaining hors d'oeuvre, re-introducing the Harkonnens, villains of the original books, but in a time far in the distant past, exposing the roots from which rose the conflict between Harkonnen and Atriedes. Call it a planted seed, actually, no roots yet, just characters struggling to make their way in the world.
Oh, and since it came directly from WordFire Press, it was signed by Anderson himself, so it's doubly precious to me beyond its entertainment value.
I received this novelette directly from Anderson as par of a bundle when I picked up the trilogy earlier this year. I had planned on purchasing them this winter, after I finished Frank Herbert's original six and the updated cover versions of the pair's Prelude to Dune trilogy. (While you shouldn't just a book by its cover, I prefer consistency in my collections; my original Dune books were a mish-mash of SFBC reprints and one mass market version of Dune: House Atriedes with the Stephen Youll cover. I've always liked Stephen Youll's work, and he's done the covers for most of the books penned by Frank Herbert's son Brian and Anderson, but I wasn't fortunate enough to get the originals when they were published and it's only now, with the new film scheduled for release in December that I'm reading the original books again and completing my collection.
The copy I received isn't the one listed here. Instead it is the "free copy" distributed by the publisher prior to the hardcover release of the opening volume, The Butlerian Jihad. And it is an entertaining hors d'oeuvre, re-introducing the Harkonnens, villains of the original books, but in a time far in the distant past, exposing the roots from which rose the conflict between Harkonnen and Atriedes. Call it a planted seed, actually, no roots yet, just characters struggling to make their way in the world.
Oh, and since it came directly from WordFire Press, it was signed by Anderson himself, so it's doubly precious to me beyond its entertainment value.
October 9, 2020
This was a short story. It was about the brother of Xavier Harkonnen, Piers. He was in charge of a mining operation on the planet Hagal and was changing the treatment of the Harkonnen slaves. His father, Ulf, arrives and begins to scold him for being too liberal in his treatment of slaves. This could have been an interesting plotline but as this is only a short story, it does not go into it. The son, Piers, could have changed the work structure of the mines making them more productive instead of the tyrannical environment they are. But the story doesn't go into this at all.
Then they are on a space yacht and Piers is held in the escape pod since it lacks a brig. His father is furious that he gave the slaves rights and was showing a sign of weakness. The ship is shot down by cymeks and Piers is hunted on the planet, Caladan. Big coincident that the planet is Caladan. It could have been an unnamed planet but they chose to make it one that will later have significance. Piers runs and eventually meets up with a primitive tribe that has had some experience hunting the cymeks. They take one out and then go back to their camp. The remaining cymeks arrive the next day and they destroy them. Piers, being less than ambitious than his brother, chooses to just live among the primitives.
This could have been an interesting story, but it was short and spent 6 pages in just the set up. The opening introduction compared it to "The Most Dangerous Game," but I feel like it is not that interesting. I could not even remember Xavier had a brother. The story is too short to not develop Piers but at least be interesting. I stopped reading the Dune series because they kept adding books in between some I had already read. I am rereading them in chronological order. This is not a good start as it is the earliest chronological account of the entire series.
Then they are on a space yacht and Piers is held in the escape pod since it lacks a brig. His father is furious that he gave the slaves rights and was showing a sign of weakness. The ship is shot down by cymeks and Piers is hunted on the planet, Caladan. Big coincident that the planet is Caladan. It could have been an unnamed planet but they chose to make it one that will later have significance. Piers runs and eventually meets up with a primitive tribe that has had some experience hunting the cymeks. They take one out and then go back to their camp. The remaining cymeks arrive the next day and they destroy them. Piers, being less than ambitious than his brother, chooses to just live among the primitives.
This could have been an interesting story, but it was short and spent 6 pages in just the set up. The opening introduction compared it to "The Most Dangerous Game," but I feel like it is not that interesting. I could not even remember Xavier had a brother. The story is too short to not develop Piers but at least be interesting. I stopped reading the Dune series because they kept adding books in between some I had already read. I am rereading them in chronological order. This is not a good start as it is the earliest chronological account of the entire series.
April 28, 2020
This is one of Brian Herbert’s longer short stories but even so it’s a comfortable read for when you want don’t want to commit to a story long term. I’ve been reading Dune books for the past few months and I keep toying with the idea of switching it up but another short story like this and I’m pulled right back in.
Hunting Harkonnens is set right at the beginning of the Dune universe and tells the story of Xavier Harkonnen’s elder brother Piers and (briefly) his parents Ulf and Katarina.
Piers is mentioned briefly in The Butlerian Jihad, again another clever hook by Brian Herbet, as I’ve mentioned before to create opportunities for side stories and full novels. This particular story sees Piers Harkonnen hunted across Caladan – an important planet in the series but as yet still a back-water. Hot on his heels are the Cymeks, human brains removed from them bodies and placed into canisters which are then easily transferred to and from all sorts of machine bodies.
Although the story does not centre around him, it explains why Xavier Harkonnen (who is a main character in the pre-original Dune books) is an orphan, however at the same time disagreeing with the main series in describing his humanitarian traits which were said to have come from his adoptive parents; his brother Piers showing these self-same characteristics at the very start of the story explained as coming from his mother, Katarina. However despite the breaks from established ideas (the previously mentioned as well as some other subtle glitches), I feel like the story submerged me back into the universe without a fight, and that's what I love about the expanded Dune universe.
Yet again, another Dune short story that scratched that itch and since it’s technically right at the very start of everything, it’s a tale that could be enjoyed by any fan of space opera, although a seasoned Dune reader would certainly pick up on and appreciate all the subtle nods to future events, places and people.
Crossposted on my blog at https://diaryofacimastudier.wordpress...
Hunting Harkonnens is set right at the beginning of the Dune universe and tells the story of Xavier Harkonnen’s elder brother Piers and (briefly) his parents Ulf and Katarina.
Piers is mentioned briefly in The Butlerian Jihad, again another clever hook by Brian Herbet, as I’ve mentioned before to create opportunities for side stories and full novels. This particular story sees Piers Harkonnen hunted across Caladan – an important planet in the series but as yet still a back-water. Hot on his heels are the Cymeks, human brains removed from them bodies and placed into canisters which are then easily transferred to and from all sorts of machine bodies.
Although the story does not centre around him, it explains why Xavier Harkonnen (who is a main character in the pre-original Dune books) is an orphan, however at the same time disagreeing with the main series in describing his humanitarian traits which were said to have come from his adoptive parents; his brother Piers showing these self-same characteristics at the very start of the story explained as coming from his mother, Katarina. However despite the breaks from established ideas (the previously mentioned as well as some other subtle glitches), I feel like the story submerged me back into the universe without a fight, and that's what I love about the expanded Dune universe.
Yet again, another Dune short story that scratched that itch and since it’s technically right at the very start of everything, it’s a tale that could be enjoyed by any fan of space opera, although a seasoned Dune reader would certainly pick up on and appreciate all the subtle nods to future events, places and people.
Crossposted on my blog at https://diaryofacimastudier.wordpress...
May 29, 2019
Reseña
Este libro es una historia corta que narra lo que sucedió con la familia de Xavier Harkonnen. Está ambientada antes del inicio del primer libro de Leyendas de Dune, La Jihad Butleriana. En él unos cimek atacan la nave donde viaja la familia Harkonnen, mientras Xavier permanece a salvo en Salusa Secundus, a cargo de quienes se convertirían en su familia adoptiva, los Tantor.
Crítica
Está bien como una historia corta, aunque no recomiendo leerla antes de comenzar con La Jihad Butleriana, sino después. Esto para poder primero conocer los personajes de esta saga a fondo, y luego ver lo que sucedió antes del inicio.
Sigue la misma dinámica que los libros largos, dividido por capítulos (más cortos que lo usual), y al menos este cuento, está lleno de acción. El final no es como me lo esperaba, francamente... me sorprendió. Se puede leer en un ratito, y si disfrutaron con la saga larga, estos cuentos cortos (que son tres en total, siendo éste el primero de ellos), les agradarán. Los otros cuentos se llaman: en posición 1.5, El mek vapuleado (o Whipping Mek, en inglés), y en posición 2.5, Los rostros de un mártir (o The Faces of a Martyr, en inglés).
3 / 5 estrellas
Este libro es una historia corta que narra lo que sucedió con la familia de Xavier Harkonnen. Está ambientada antes del inicio del primer libro de Leyendas de Dune, La Jihad Butleriana. En él unos cimek atacan la nave donde viaja la familia Harkonnen, mientras Xavier permanece a salvo en Salusa Secundus, a cargo de quienes se convertirían en su familia adoptiva, los Tantor.
Crítica
Está bien como una historia corta, aunque no recomiendo leerla antes de comenzar con La Jihad Butleriana, sino después. Esto para poder primero conocer los personajes de esta saga a fondo, y luego ver lo que sucedió antes del inicio.
Sigue la misma dinámica que los libros largos, dividido por capítulos (más cortos que lo usual), y al menos este cuento, está lleno de acción. El final no es como me lo esperaba, francamente... me sorprendió. Se puede leer en un ratito, y si disfrutaron con la saga larga, estos cuentos cortos (que son tres en total, siendo éste el primero de ellos), les agradarán. Los otros cuentos se llaman: en posición 1.5, El mek vapuleado (o Whipping Mek, en inglés), y en posición 2.5, Los rostros de un mártir (o The Faces of a Martyr, en inglés).
3 / 5 estrellas
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January 11, 2022 As of January 2022, I have only read the first five Dune novels by Frank Herbert. I have decided to dive into the expanded universe by KJA/BH by reading simultaneously "The Road To Dune" and "House Atreides".
The paperback of "The Road To Dune" has five short stories by KJA/BH, the second of which is "Hunting Harkonnens".
This story introduces the Cymeks. And expands on the planet Hagal (which was my favorite part!) After reading this short story, I have to say that I am looking forward to reading the novel "The Butlerian Jihad" -- even though this doesn't appear to be at all what I thought TBJ would have been.
I am keeping an open mind with the KJA/BH novels. So far, they are quite enjoyable!
The paperback of "The Road To Dune" has five short stories by KJA/BH, the second of which is "Hunting Harkonnens".
This story introduces the Cymeks. And expands on the planet Hagal (which was my favorite part!) After reading this short story, I have to say that I am looking forward to reading the novel "The Butlerian Jihad" -- even though this doesn't appear to be at all what I thought TBJ would have been.
I am keeping an open mind with the KJA/BH novels. So far, they are quite enjoyable!
June 24, 2025
(Empezando a leer Dune por orden cronológico!)
Tenía ciertas dudas sobre si empezar por este orden cambiaría mucho mi experiencia de lectura de esta saga tan importante, sobre todo por alguna reseña u opinión crítica que leí sobre la escritura de Herbert hijo... ¡pero ni por asomo!
Esta historia de poco más de 20 páginas, hace una introducción a un mundo espectacular, incluyendo lore, tecnologías, políticas... Me pareció una historia de scifi preciosa, interesante en todo momento, con acción y cerrada perfectamente, ¡incluso emotiva! ¿(en solo 20 páginas!?) El estilo de narración es muy ágil, y tampoco peca de poco detallista, por lo que no entiendo ciertas reseñas malas.
Me ha encantado el mundo que presentan, muchísimas ganas de seguir con esta saga tan extensa! 5 ⭐
Tenía ciertas dudas sobre si empezar por este orden cambiaría mucho mi experiencia de lectura de esta saga tan importante, sobre todo por alguna reseña u opinión crítica que leí sobre la escritura de Herbert hijo... ¡pero ni por asomo!
Esta historia de poco más de 20 páginas, hace una introducción a un mundo espectacular, incluyendo lore, tecnologías, políticas... Me pareció una historia de scifi preciosa, interesante en todo momento, con acción y cerrada perfectamente, ¡incluso emotiva! ¿(en solo 20 páginas!?) El estilo de narración es muy ágil, y tampoco peca de poco detallista, por lo que no entiendo ciertas reseñas malas.
Me ha encantado el mundo que presentan, muchísimas ganas de seguir con esta saga tan extensa! 5 ⭐
March 24, 2024
A decent opening short story. I hadn’t read it before. I read it as part of Tales of Dune collection gotten from the Libby app. I do not own a hardcover copy yet, but plan to purchase a copy of Tales of Dune.
I think it’s an interesting story but not sure if you would enjoy it if you hadn’t read the rest of dune before. It doesn’t give much context for who these places or characters are and relies on the reader knowing more.
That being said it’s perfectly fine as a story and I enjoyed it. Would suggest having it immediately before starting The Butlerian Jihad as it’s mentioned very early in that.
I think it’s an interesting story but not sure if you would enjoy it if you hadn’t read the rest of dune before. It doesn’t give much context for who these places or characters are and relies on the reader knowing more.
That being said it’s perfectly fine as a story and I enjoyed it. Would suggest having it immediately before starting The Butlerian Jihad as it’s mentioned very early in that.
January 18, 2023
1.5 stars
A very boring introduction to the dune franchise a series I was umming and aring over though my mind is made up skip the dune franchise.
There was no action, only a space yacht and then his parents die though he wants to be a good storyteller?
Pros
Character build was good I did enjoy the in-detail depth.
Cons
The story was too slow for my liking it dragged lots.
Not alot of action more storytelling (don't get me wrong storytelling is good but not when there is no action.)
A very boring introduction to the dune franchise a series I was umming and aring over though my mind is made up skip the dune franchise.
There was no action, only a space yacht and then his parents die though he wants to be a good storyteller?
Pros
Character build was good I did enjoy the in-detail depth.
Cons
The story was too slow for my liking it dragged lots.
Not alot of action more storytelling (don't get me wrong storytelling is good but not when there is no action.)
April 27, 2025
Una historia bastante corta, entretenida y con mucha acción. Es una precuela de La Yihad Butleriana, que cuenta la historia de lo sucedido con los padres y el hermano mayor de Xavier Harkonnen, después de un ataque de los Cymeks (máquinas con cerebro humano). Está ambientada en la época cuando Xavier era un niño. No es de obligatoria lectura, pero aclara pequeños datos interesantes que más adelante pueden ser importantes.
September 19, 2025
A very short story (28 pages) that has the machines patrolling outer space and happen upon a Harkonnen luxury yacht. The machines shoot that ship up (killing Harkonnen senior, Ulf, and his wife) The young son Piers escapes in a pod and crash lands on Caladan, the future home of the Atreides family. When the machines follow the pod down to kill the survivor, they are confronted by a primitive race, determined to kill all the machines.
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