(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) Frank Herbert’s second installment in the Dune saga, ‘Dune Messiah’, bears an uncanny resemblance to one of its most telling characters, Skytale, a ‘Tleilaxu Face Dancer’. A Tleilax is a product of a renegade training centre and is representative of a twisted soul who is capable of assuming the face and voice … Continue reading Dune Messiah – Frank Herbert

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) Every now and then, crops up a piece of literary marvel that unshackles itself from being straitjacketed as belonging to a ‘genre’ and escapes being blasély branded as the undisputed barometer of an oeuvre. Such books bridge the two dimensions of time and space and continue to be undiminished in their relevance. … Continue reading Dune – Frank Herbert