Samuel Butler (novelist)
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Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since
Portrait by Charles Gogin
Samuel Butler's birthplace and childhood home
Butler at the age of 23, in 1858
Dune (franchise)
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Dune is an American science fiction media franchise that originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert and has continued to add new publications. Dune is frequently described as the best-sellin
Samuel Butler (novelist)
…status, for it originates the conceit by which machines develop intelligent capacities and enslave mankind." For example, in Frank Herbert's Dune the "Butlerian Jihad" – "in-universe ancient revolt against 'thinking machines' that resulted in their prohibition" – is named after Butler. The English novelist Aldous…
Cover of the collectible card game Dune (1997)
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