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How faithful is Dune: Awakening to its source material?
A look at how faithful Dune: Awakening is to its extremely complex source material.
Some fans swear by the original book only; others acknowledge the first three; some (including me) worship at the altar of the God Emperor; a certain kind of masochistic heretic even manages to glean enjoyment from Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert's monstrously expanded universe. This is a universe where human minds can be trained to perform complex calculations at the speed of an advanced machine, where foetuses can awaken in the womb and speak to their mothers, and where tank-swimming drug addicts use precognition to navigate space instantaneously. Chaumas poison, crysknifes, elacca narcotics, fremkits, glowglobes, Holtzman fields, pentashields, sandcrawlers, servoks, shigawire, sinkcharts, solido projections, suspensor belts, and many, many other small details of Herbert's rich world find a meaningful place in Awakening, alongside some of the bigger concepts, like the rules of a Kanly feud or the Bene Gesserit Missionaria Protectiva.
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