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Dune
Frank Herbert
June 15, 1984 · Hardcover · Putnam Adult · 517 pp
First edition · Edition First Putnam ed. · ISBN 9780399128967 · English · US · Dewey 813/.54 19 · LC PS3558.E63 D8 1984
Science Fiction
This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium. Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting.
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1969Dune Messiah**Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time** Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne—and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family’s dynasty...
1985Chapterhouse: DuneThe desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's powers, have colonized a green world and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile.
- 1999Dune: House Atreides
- 2000Dune: House Harkonnen
- 2001Dune: House Corrino
- 2002Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
- 2003Dune: The Machine Crusade
- 2004Dune: The Battle of Corrin
2005The Road to Dune- 2006Hunters of Dune
- 2007Sandworms of Dune
- 2008Paul of Dune
- 2009The Winds of Dune
- 2012Sisterhood of Dune
- 2014Mentats of Dune
- 2016Navigators of Dune
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