What is "butlerian"

Usage examples of "butlerian".

We will delve into the most ancient records, into the very myths of Dune, into the time of the Great Revolt, more commonly known as the Butlerian Jihad.

The original idea for the Butlerian Jihad may have come to Herbert as a direct result of the fear of computers in our own culture.

The Butlerian Jihad was the birth agony of a new science of the subjective.

The Spacing Guild, which established its monopoly on interstellar transport soon after the Butlerian Jihad, likewise uses mind expansion techniques.

The fear of computers was the basis of the Butlerian Jihad, and the limits of such machines were observed in Mentat behavior.

The Butlerian Jihad was an outgrowth of this largely unconscious process, with roots back to the original decision to allow thinking machines too much control, and the inevitable rise of the Omnius Empire.

Barney said in butlerian tones, his glance falling last on Amariyah, who loved to eat.

Elto caught a few words about a sleeping princess, a hidden and magical city, a lost hero from the Butlerian Jihad who would slumber in oblivion until he rose again to save the Imperium.

The blood-feud between the two noble families dated all the way back to the Butlerian Jihad.

Navachristianity of Chusuk, the Buddislamic Variants of the types dominant at Lankiveil and Sikun, the Blend Books of the Mahayana Lankavatara, the Zen Hekiganshu of III Delta Pavonis, the Tawrah and Talmudic Zabur surviving on Salusa Secundus, the pervasive Obeah Ritual, the Muadh Quran with its pure Ilm and Fiqh preserved among the pundi rice farmers of Caladan, the Hindu outcroppings found all through the universe in little pockets of insulated pyons, and finally, the Butlerian Jihad.