Whipping Mek
Introduction
Our second Jihad-era story, “Whipping Mek,” bridges the first and second novels in the trilogy, The Butlerian Jihad and The Machine Crusade. The story is set at a vital point in the nearly quarter-century gap between the events in these two novels, and fleshes out a pair of key tragic figures from later parts of the story.
Tor Books released this story as a free booklet distributed widely in bookstores across the US, and many copies included a bonus CD that included an audio version of the story, read by Scott Brick.