Dune by Frank Herbert

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The bestselling science fiction novel of all time, with nearly ten million copies in print.

Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender’s Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune: winner of the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards, and widely considered one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written.

Melange, or ‘spice’, is the most valuable – and rarest – element in the universe; a drug that does everything from increasing a person’s life-span to making intersteller travel possible. And it can only be found on a single planet: the inhospitable desert world Arrakis.

Whoever controls Arrakis controls the spice. And whoever controls the spice controls the universe.

When the Emperor transfers stewardship of Arrakis from the noble House Harkonnen to House Atreides, the Harkonnens fight back, murdering Duke Leto Atreides. Paul, his son, and Lady Jessica, his concubine, flee into the desert. On the point of death, they are rescued by a band for Fremen, the native people of Arrakis, who control Arrakis’ second great resource: the giant worms that burrow beneath the burning desert sands.

In order to avenge his father and retake Arrakis from the Harkonnens, Paul must earn the trust of the Fremen and lead a tiny army against the innumerable forces aligned against them.
And his journey will change the universe.

A sweeping work of science-fiction that helped define the genre and bring it to the mainstream ― The Independent

Adapted from Frank Herbert’s 1960s opus, Dune is dense, moody and quite often sublime – the missing link bridging the multiplex and the arthouse ― The Guardian – 5*

This new adaptation of the 1965 Frank Herbert novel … it’s science-fiction at its most majestic, unsettling and enveloping ― Daily Telegraph

Dune: science fiction’s answer to Lord of the Rings ― The Guardian

Dune, more than 50 years after it was first published, is a story that speaks to the issues of our time ― BBC Science Focus

Astonishing in its scope and thought-provoking in its breadth of themes, Dune is an unforgettable fantasy adventure like no other ― Woman & Home

Astonishing in its scope and thought-provoking in its breadth of themes, Dune is an unforgettable fantasy adventure like no other ― Isabelle Broom, womanandhome.com, Best Fantasy Books of All Time

Unique among SF novels . . . I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings. ― Arthur C. Clarke

One of the landmarks of modern science fiction . . . an amazing feat of creation. ― Analog