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Twelve years on, the emperor Paul is trapped by his own jihad and his own prophecy.

Paul's twins, born with the memories of their ancestors, and the choice Leto makes.

Psychohistory predicts the fall of the Galactic Empire and Hari Seldon plans for it; Asimov's trilogy begins.

Kirk, Spock and McCoy on a five-year mission across three seasons from 1966; "The City on the Edge of Forever" and "Balance of Terror".

Character creation runs a career term by term and can kill you before play starts; the first science-fiction roleplaying game.

Three and a half thousand years later, Leto II is mostly sandworm and rules a stagnant empire on purpose.

The Bene Gesserit against the Honored Matres, fifteen centuries after the God Emperor.

Herbert's last book: the Sisterhood turns its own planet into a new Arrakis.