Frank Herbert's Dune

Implies:
* Future

<b>Houses:</b>
* House Atreides
* House Harkonnen
* House Corrino - the ruling family since the war against thinking machines
* House Richese - like the Ix, Richese are mechanically talented

<b>Other houses:</b> (not by Herbert)
* House Vernius

<b>People/factions:</b>
* Ix - masters of mechanical engineering, named after their homeplanet, Ix.
* Bene Tleilax / Tleilaxu - masters of genetic manipulation
* Bene Gesserit - masters of more esoteric mental and physical abilities
* Spacing Guild
* Fremen - natives of Arrakis
* Mentats - humans whose mental cognitive and analytical abilities have been trained beyond what the thinking machines of old could

<b>Non-canon:</b>
* House Ordos - created by Westwood to function as the compulsory third faction in their Dune strategy games