HBO seems to be running Dune on the House of the Dragon OS, washing Frank Herbert’s universe in the network’s signature blend ...

For example, Valya Harkonnen (Emily Watson) briefly tells about the Butlerian Jihad (humanity's war against thinking machines ...

The fact that it has persisted for 10,000 years highlights its fundamental importance to Frank Herbert's universe.

The poison in [Baron Harkonnen], deep in his mind, is the knowledge that an Atreides had a Harkonnen banished for cowardice after, the Battle of Corrin.” A group of human rebels rose up against ...

Shaddam fears Duke Leto Atreides' popularity and helps Baron Vladimir Harkonnen kill Leto by lending the Harkonnens the royal family's elite military force, the Sarduakar. Paul Atreides eventually ...

Paul spends most of the first Dune novel avenging the death of his father at the hands of a villain named Baron Harkonnen and the Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, both of whom believe Paul's family to be a ...

They're doomed to sell smelly whale meat for a living. If the Atreides-Harkonnen feud sounds familiar, that's because it's a key plot point in the two Dune movies. Giant slug-man Baron Vladimir ...

Set 10,000 years before the events of Dune, Dune: Prophecy sees House Harkonnen forced into exile due to their supposed cowardice during the war against the "thinking machines." Valya and Tula are ...