4.3.2 "Dune: House Harkonnen" (inconsistencies and errors)
Description
This article is from the Dune FAQ, by Alan Schwartz with numerous contributions by others.
4.3.2 "Dune: House Harkonnen" (inconsistencies and errors)
- Jessica is made Duke Leto's concubine and Dr. Yueh joins the Atreides
before Paul's death. However, more than fifteen years later, in "Dune",
Jessica says that she has only known Yueh for six years.
- Gurney and Liet-Kynes meet and become good friends in "House
Harkonnen_. Yet when they meet again in "Dune" they don't recognize each
other at all.
- Kynes tells a smuggler "I am Liet-Kynes, son of Pardot Kynes". The
authors also claim that Liet was his sietch name. In that case it should
be kept secret from outsiders.
- In "Dune", Gurney calls Duke Leto "the man who rescued me from a
Harkonnen slave pit, gave me freedom, life, and honor". However, in
_House Harkonnen" he escapes the Harkonnens on his own.
- In "House Harkonnen", Dr. Yueh is described as a greedy man. Contrast
this quote from "Dune_: "Does greed touch even you, Wellington?"
- "House Harkonnen" has Ginaz ruled by an academy of swordmasters.
_Dune" clearly refers to the House of Ginaz.
- According to "House Harkonnen", the first time Duncan kills someone is
when he stabs Trin Kronos (a Moritani) in the back with his sword to
save his friend Resser. This takes place on planet Ginaz.
"Dune" [Duncan]: "My sword was firs' blooded on Grumman! Killed a
Harkon . . . Harkon . . . killed 'im f'r th' Duke."
Continue to:
My Books
