384pp, 800g. Ex-library; red boards, gold lettering on spine, no stamps, corners bumped, spine cocked, fep damaged due to previous removal of pocket, page edges foxed, rear hinge shaken. Dust jacket has edgewear, shadow of library sticker on spine. The people of the Scattering are returning. Amongst them, mysterious and threatening, are the women who call themselves the Honoured Matres, adepts of an ecstatic cult. On Rakis, become Dune, an ancient philosophy is fulfilled.