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The Dosadi Experiment

Frank Herbert
1969

In memory of Babe because she knew how to enjoy life.




When the Calebans first sent us one of their giant metal "beachballs,"
communicating through this device to offer the use of jumpdoors for
interstellar travel, many in the ConSentiency covertly began to exploit this
gift of the stars for their own questionable purposes. Both the "Shadow
Government" and some among the Gowachin people saw what is obvious today:
that instantaneous travel across unlimited space involved powers which might
isolate subject populations in gross numbers.

This observation at the beginning of the Dosadi Experiment came long before
Saboteur Extraordinary Jorj X. McKie discovered that visible stars of our
universe were either Calebans or the manifestations of Calebans in ConSentient
space. (See Whipping Star, an account of McKie's discovery thinly disguised
as fiction.)

What remains pertinent here is that McKie, acting for his Bureau of Sabotage,
identified the Caleban called "Fannie Mae" as the visible star Thyone. This
discovery of the Thyone-Fannie Mae identity ignited new interest in the
Caleban Question and thus contributed to the exposure of the Dosadi Experiment
-- which many still believe was the most disgusting use of Sentients by
Sentients in ConSentient history. Certainly, it remains the most gross
psychological test of Sentient Beings ever performed, and the issue of
informed consent has never been settled to everyone's satisfaction.

-From the first public account, the Trial of Trials




Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he
create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge
into its inexorable motion.

-Gowachin aphorism


"Why are you so cold and mechanical in your Human relationships?"

Jorj X. McKie was to reflect on that Caleban question later. Had she been
trying to alert him to the Dosadi Experiment and to what his investigation of
that experiment might do to him? He hadn't even known about Dosadi at the