1. As in others of Herbert’s books — the subtug trying to evade detection in Under Pressure (1956), the unknown saboteur in Destination: Void (1966), the secret rebellion in The Eyes of Heisenberg (1966), the hidden doings of the bland rural community in The Santaroga Barrier (1968), the concealed location of Mliss Abnethe in Whipping Star (1970), the unknown extrasensory powers of
2. Lewis Orne in The Godmakers (1972), the secret behind the apparent farmhouse of Hellstrom’s Hive (1973) or behind the walled-off planet in The Dosadi Experiment (1977), the unknown intelligence of the planet in The Jesus Incident (1979), the concealment of the plague-transmitter in The White Plague (1982). In many cases, the unknown figures as the unconscious beneath the front of the conscious self.
3. A Herbert, Dune (London: New English Library, 1969) p. 312. Page references hereafter are to this edition.