Children of Dune Club Q&A

Memories aren’t everything we’ve experience. Just things we remember. Is that what’s passed on or just our memories??

QUESTION: Is all the crazy stuff in the later books happening in the background of the earlier books as well?

Do you think Paul could have done anything to save Alia from her fate?

Ambiguous Asian

How does Jessica and the twins know that Alia is already possessed by the Baron, of all Alias past memories? What about the Barons memories give him away in Alia? Is it just facial cues they remember from their memories of the Baron? Or is it something more?

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Can other personalities take turns coming forward or is it only one persona that possesses the host and takes full control?

Question: Maybe it is not important to understanding Frank Herbert's points, but, what is the mechanism by which the memories of the dead are preserved and can be accessed by the living? Are memories constantly somehow recorded somewhere as they occur? Do they pass into children at their birth, or upon the death of the parent? Are memories of childless people preserved? Are ALL memories accessible or only memories of one's family (however distant)?

Also... can we learn something about ourselves from the Abomination? Can we be trapped in transitory Abomination states when our core identity is somehow shaken or destroyed?

What's up with that dude with the Tigers? I'm guessing that was some type of twin killing practice? Also, How big is house Atreides? Is it a whole family tree type deal?

It feels so good to come back to Arrakis, thanks! Reading these first chapters, I realized I was underlying quotes on decision-making in each of them: "failure to make a decision is a decision in itself" (Stilgar), "too much info makes decisions difficult" (twins). Also, Jessica rapidly decides about Javid and the tigers are controlled through an external device. This may be one of the main themes of Children on Dune, also knowing the final choice Alia will have to make. Do you have comments on this?

My question this time is shorter and more restrained than my usual custom (though in time you won't be disappointed on that score :) ), but I think reasonable: why did Alia not risk an actual full battle on the landing field that would have ended everything in ten minutes, a larger fight between a larger portion her forces and all of Stilgar and Gurney's forces? Well maybe that was what was planned before Gurney and Stilgar stoppd it in its tracks. Early in the book there are a couple times you wonder why it isn't just over right-off, until you see how everything inter-locks to -prevent- a general conflict, when Frank gets a fair chance to lay it all out. And perhaps we're meant to wonder that.

Can internationals order ALL THAT SWEET MERCH to keep in reserve and ship later?

Lucas Fehr