Gom Jabbar: A Dune Podcast

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October 02 Greenslaves and Occupation Force: Frank Herbert Before Dune
Abu and Leo dig into "Greenslaves" and "Occupation Force," two stories Herbert wrote in the decade before Dune made him famous, to see what they reveal about the mind behind the books.
"Greenslaves," published in Amazing in March 1965 and later expanded into the novel The Green Brain, follows a Brazilian extermination program built to wipe out every last insect, and the swarm that has learned to disguise itself to survive it. In "Occupation Force," published in Fantastic in 1955, a U.S. general readies the nukes against an alien ship parked over Washington, only for its ambassador to deliver a reveal about exactly how long humans have actually been under alien rule.
This episode contains SPOILERS for Frank Herbert's short stories Greenslaves and Occupation Force. There are NO SPOILERS for the Dune novels.
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1 hr 8 min
September 25 Lost Entries: Psychology of the Sardaukar and Harkonnens
Abu and Leo finish their Lost Entries run through Carl B. Yoke's psychology manuscripts, uncovered at the Fullerton Archives. This week they read two unpublished Dune Encyclopedia entries on the psychology of the Sardaukar and the Harkonnens.
The Sardaukar entry centers on the Dhama ti Kama, the corps' secret training manual, which Lady Margot Fenring somehow stole for the Bene Gesserit. Its author, the Sardau shaman Kiwan Kalama, lays out a Freudian program for turning children into warriors, and it is every bit as grim as that sounds. The Harkonnen entry introduces Dr. Amertine Moritani Harkonnen, a granddaughter of Shaddam IV who married into the family after the Baron's death and made him the subject of her Study of the Dark Side.
This episode contains SPOILERS for Children of Dune.
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56 min
September 18 Book Club: Hunters of Dune (Part 2)
Abu and Leo finish Hunters of Dune, the first book in Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's conclusion of the Dune saga. They break down the back half of the book and vent their feelings about how this is all just so wrong.
They cover the Ithaca's stalled journey through the Scattering, Duncan Idaho's fixation on the absent Murbella, and the ghola children growing up aboard the no-ship. On Chapterhouse, Murbella's war against the Honored Matres comes to a head, including the reveal that the Honored Matres descend in part from Tleilaxu women. Uxtal's doomed attempt to resurrect a Tleilaxu master and Khrone's efforts to reawaken a young Baron Harkonnen push the ghola storylines toward their conclusions. Along the way, the mysterious old couple behind the Scattering's chaos finally comes into focus, setting up next episode's dive into Sandworms of Dune.
This episode contains SPOILERS for all six of Frank Herbert's Dune novels, plus the entirety of Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
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2 hr 15 min
September 11 Lost Entries: Psychology of the Fremen
An unpublished Dune Encyclopedia manuscript called Psychology of the Fremen never made it past Willis E. McNelly's editing desk, until now. Abu and Leo dig into what got cut, in part one of a two-episode dive into the Fullerton archives' unreleased psychology entries.
Carl B. Yoke, a Kent State University professor, wrote it as one of five planned psychology profiles that also covered the Bene Gesserit, the Sardaukar, the Harkonnens, and the Imperium. Yoke's Fremen entry builds its case through an invented smuggler-poet, whose writings and observations of Fremen psychology survived in the Bene Gesserit archives on Wallach IX. From there, Abu and Leo trace a psychological system mapped almost entirely onto Carl Jung.
This episode contains NO SPOILERS for the Dune novels.
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1 hr 2 min
September 08 DISPATCH: Hugo Winners, Bobiverse Returns & Silo's Divisive Finale
The 2026 Hugo Awards hand Best Novel to Alix E. Harrow's The Everlasting and give Murderbot its first-ever trophy, while WorldCon finally reveals the price for the 2023 Hugo scandal: a lifetime ban for administrator Dave McCarty and lesser bans for three others. Plus, Silo closes its most divisive season yet to a critic/audience split the internet doesn't seem to agree with, and the Bobiverse's fifth book proves the series still has it.
Stellar Dispatch drops every Tuesday. New main episodes every Friday on the Stellar feed.
Stories this week:
2026 Hugo Awards winners announced at LAcon V
WorldCon censures and bans four 2023 Chengdu Worldcon officials
Silo season 3 finale review
Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5) review

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31 min
September 04Book Club: Hunters of Dune (Part 1)
Abu and Leo begin the book club coverage of Hunters of Dune, the first novel completing Frank Herbert's saga after his death. They walk through the first half of the book's tangled plot before turning to the continuity breaks and creative choices they think do real damage to the Dune canon.
This episode contains SPOILERS for all six of Frank Herbert's Dune novels, plus chapters 1-44 of Hunters of Dune!
Listen to "The 7 Deadly Sins of Brian Herbert" episode HERE
IN THIS EPISODE
Why the Ithaca crew revives gholas of Paul Atreides and Leto II Atreides while passing over Ghanima and Alia

Murbella's shaky start as Mother Commander of the merged Bene Gesserit and Honored Matres, and the power struggles taking shape at Chapter House

The Oracle of Time and a Golden Path retcon that Abu and Leo argue contradict rules Frank Herbert spent six books establishing
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1 hr 47 min
August 28 Producer's Commentary: Revisiting The Road to Dune
Since we're in our #BrianHerbertEra, Abu and Leo revisit an episode from 2022 covering the history of Dune as told by Brian Herbert in his book, The Road to Dune.
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2 hr 14 min
August 21The Hidden Jews of Dune With DZ Kalman
Frank Herbert spent five books showing how faiths merge, mutate, and drift beyond recognition. Then, in Chapterhouse: Dune, he wrote in a community of Jews who had not changed at all. Abu and Leo gather critical takes from Jewish readers and scholars, then sit down with historian DZ Kalman to ask whether representation that gets things wrong can still be worth having.
This episode contains SPOILERS for all six of Frank Herbert's Dune novels, up through Chapterhouse: Dune!
IN THIS EPISODE
Rebecca, the Rabbi, and the deal the Bene Gesserit struck with a people nobody could find

Where Kwisatz Haderach actually comes from in Jewish mysticism, and why nobody knows how Herbert found it

A theory about Beverly Herbert's death, the to-do list she left behind, and what Daniel and Marty have to do with any of it
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
DZ Kalman's essay on the Jews of Dune: jellomenorah.com
DZ Kalman's podcast, Belief in the Future: podcasts.apple.com
Michael Weingrad, Jews of Dune: jewishreviewofbooks.com
Jonathan Weidenbaum, The Holy Versus the Sacred: doi.org
Leigh Kimmel's Chapterhouse Dune review: billionlightyearbookshelf.com
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1 hr 12 min
August 07Mailbag: Ranking All Six Dune Novels and Why We Never Needed a Seventh Book
Abu⁠ and ⁠Leo⁠ close out the book club with a live listener Q&A, the first one recorded with every page of Frank Herbert's saga behind them. It's a reflective hang about how this series thinks about power, governance, and the limits of art as political commentary, and about what it feels like to reach the end of a six-year read-through.
This episode contains SPOILERS for all six of Frank Herbert's Dune novels.
IN THIS EPISODE
Whether the Bene Gesserit's surveillance-and-no-confidence structure is Frank's ideal government, or a system he builds up only to critique through the Honored Matres

Our theories for why Abomination disappears after Children of Dune, from the inner Mohalata to Siona's descendants being immune

What Daniel and Marty really represent, and why Chapterhouse works as Frank's farewell with no seventh book needed

What the Dune Encyclopedia's contraception entry reveals about the Bene Gesserit breeding program, axolotl tanks, and their opposition to abortion

Whether Dune: Part Three can handle the jihad honestly, with Andor Season 2 held up as the gold standard for political storytelling

A live, no-holds-barred re-ranking of all six novels, with Leo putting Dune fifth and God Emperor dead last
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1 hr 28 min
July 31Lost Entries: Roj Amalkin and the Stone Burner
Abu and Leo return to the Lost Entries series with two Dune Encyclopedia manuscripts that never made it into print. Both were written by one of the Encyclopedia's most prolific contributors, and detail the life of Dune's Oppenheimer: a man named Roj Amalkin, who invented the deadliest weapon in the galaxy.. They read the manuscripts in full, and argue about why McNelly left them on the cutting room floor.
This episode contains SPOILERS for Dune and Dune Messiah!
IN THIS EPISODE
How a sickly kid on Salusa Secundus grew up to invent the stone burner, and what his mother did to make sure he survived long enough to build it

The Bocca drill, the Lucifer gems it left behind, and the one illegal modification that turned a mining tool into a weapon

Why the Fedaykin hunted every stone burner out of existence
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58 min

About Gom Jabbar: A Dune Podcast

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Gom Jabbar is the ultimate guide to the Dune universe for both longtime fans and newcomers. Join hosts Abu and Leo as they dive deep into every aspect of Dune lore, from Frank Herbert's original…