Author: Josef Venport

Cited by

• Kevin and Herbert, Brian Anderson (1)
  • IN: Mentats of Dune (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The idiocy of it all! I cannot decide whether to laugh at Butlerian insanity, or weep for the future of our species. What will those fanatics demand next? The complete absence of medical technology? Would they outlaw fire, and declare the existence of the wheel too dangerous? Are we all to be relegated to huddling in forests and fields? Enough. This is the decree of Venport Holdings: No VenHold cargo ship or passenger transport shall trade with any planet that signs Manford Torondo’s antitechnology pledge. We will deliver no goods or passengers, transmit no communications, engage in no commerce with any world that shares his dangerous, barbarian philosophy. Make your choice: Do you prefer to bask in the glow of civilization, or cower in the shadows of primitive despair? Decide.
    FROM: DIRECTEUR JOSEF VENPORT, formal business announcement, (2014), Speech, NULL