h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I don't know if anyone else has already posted this or not. I couldn't go through all the conversations. There were two mistakes made in the accepted entry:
1. Paul Atreides did not ever marry Harah, widow of Jamis. He took her as a servant on the understanding that should he wish to change his mind, he had a year to do so. But he never did change his mind -- not in book or film. Harah was eventually released from his service and was wed to Stilgar, Paul's right-hand man in the book DUNE MESSIAH.

2. Both Liet-Kynes and the other Fremen most certainly did wish for rain on Arrakis. L-K's dad was the first planetary ecologist of Arrakis and it was first his vision to terraform the planet into a more suitable place for life. When Elder Kynes died his son carried on with the education of the wild Fremen and the secret terraforming projects that had been begun on the southern continent. However, none of them expected it to happen during their lifetime, or even during the lifetime of their "grandchildren's grandchildren." The best estimate they ever got on Arrakis becoming a green planet was three hundred and fifty years. This is discussed in detail in the first Appendix of DUNE.

Thanks for dropping by and telling me about the mistakes in the article - sadly I have not read the novels recently enough, so mistakes are understandable.
1.) True - I will re-write the paragraph.
2.) You are right - but I think we both are. I agree that Kynes did have a vision for Dune to include rain etc, but I also remember a scene in which Paul naively talks of using the power of House Atreides using satellites etc. to change the face of Arrakis and bring about the climatic change in a few decades, which is replied to by Kynes, or the Fremen, saying that an eco-system is a System, and that unless you make the changes slowly and gradually in an organised way, you do undeniable harm for the future. So although Kynes & the Fremen are in favour of rain, they aren't in favour of it happening suddenly and without being controlled.

Yes.