4.3.8 "Heretics of Dune" (inconsistencies and errors)
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This article is from the Dune FAQ, by Alan Schwartz with numerous contributions by others.
4.3.8 "Heretics of Dune" (inconsistencies and errors)
- From "Heretics of Dune_: "The cell studies said he was a mixture of
many Idaho gholas -- some descendant of Siona." Obviously, no Duncan
ghola could have been a descendant of Siona.
- Frank Herbert seems unaware that the Kelvin scale does not have
negative temperatures: "His dart throwers had been sealed and "washed"
against snoopers, then maintained at minus 340[degrees] Kelvin in a
radiation bath for five SY to make them proof against snoopers."
- If not a direct discrepancy, Scytale's return as a Tleilaxu Master in
_Heretics of Dune" is seen as odd by many. How and why the Tleilaxu
resurrected him, moreover changing him from a Face Dancer to a Master,
remains unexplained. That it is the same person is apparently
established by a comment that the latter incarnation had "met Muad'Dib".
The hidden nature of Tleilaxu society is difficult to reconcile with
Scytale's thoughts in "Dune Messiah_.
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