Paul Atreides
Fictional character in Dune
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- Paul Atreides ( ; later known as Paul Muad'Dib , and later still as The Preacher ) is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.
- The character is brought back as two different gholas (clones) in the Brian Herbert and Kevin J.
- According to Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's son and biographer, House Atreides was based on the heroic but ill-fated Greek mythological house of Atreus.
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WikipediaPaul Atreides (; later known as Paul Muad'Dib, and later still as The Preacher) is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. He is a main character in the first two novels in the series, Dune (1965) and Dune Messiah (1969), and returns in Children of Dune (1976). The character is brought back as two different gholas (clones) in the Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson novels which conclude the original series, Hunters of Dune (2006) and Sandworms of Dune (2007), and appears in the prequels Paul of Dune (2008) and The Winds of Dune (2009). According to Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's son and biographer, House Atreides was based on the heroic but ill-fated Greek mythological house of Atreus.
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