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{"id":586,"date":"2014-05-23T21:27:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T21:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/?page_id=586"},"modified":"2019-09-20T21:34:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T21:34:05","slug":"mentats-of-dune","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brianherbertnovels.com\/dune-series\/mentats-of-dune\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentats of Dune (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mentats-Dune-Book-Schools-Trilogy\/dp\/0765362635\/ref=asc_df_0765362635\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-165 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/brianherbertnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MentatsofDune-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mentats of Dune, by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianherbertnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MentatsofDune-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.brianherbertnovels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MentatsofDune.jpg 641w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson&#8217;s Mentats of Dune, the thinking machines have been defeated but the struggle for humanity\u2019s future continues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics, led by the madman Manford Torondo and his Swordmaster Anari Idaho. Mother Superior Raquella attempts to rebuild her Sisterhood School on Wallach IX, with her most talented and ambitious student, Valya Harkonnen, who also has another goal\u2014to exact revenge on Vorian Atreides, the legendary hero of the Jihad, whom she blames for her family\u2019s downfall.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Josef Venport conducts his own war against the Butlerians. VenHold Spacing Fleet controls nearly all commerce thanks to the superior mutated Navigators that Venport has created, and he places a ruthless embargo on any planet that accepts Manford Torondo\u2019s anti-technology pledge, hoping to starve them into submission. But fanatics rarely surrender easily . . .<\/p>\n<p>The Mentats, the Navigators, and the Sisterhood all strive to improve the human race, but each group knows that as Butlerian fanaticism grows stronger, the battle will be to choose the path of humanity\u2019s future\u2014whether to embrace civilization, or to plunge into an endless dark age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mentats-Dune-Book-Schools-Trilogy\/dp\/0765362635\/ref=asc_df_0765362635\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"button\">Buy the Book!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson&#8217;s Mentats of Dune, the thinking machines have been defeated but the struggle for humanity\u2019s future continues. Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brianherbertnovels.com\/dune-series\/mentats-of-dune\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":733,"parent":93,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mentats of Dune (2014) - Brian Herbert<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mentats of Dune\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brianherbertnovels.com\/dune-series\/mentats-of-dune\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mentats of Dune (2014) - 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