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― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
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― Stormbringer
― Stormbringer
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“Muad’Dib must always be that inner outrage against the complacently powerful, against the charlatans and the dogmatic fanatics. It is that inner outrage which must have its say because Muad’Dib taught us one thing above all others: that humans can endure only in a fraternity of social justice.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy"
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