Dune
by Frank Herbert
more Science Fiction →Dune set the template that most modern science fiction politics still borrows from: desert ecology, feudal houses, and a messiah narrative that Herbert himself meant as a warning, not a celebration. It's denser and more political than its blockbuster adaptations suggest.
why track this in moth
Herbert's Dune saga runs six books deep (and beyond, with his son's continuations); Moth's series tracking is useful if you're planning to go further than book one.
Book facts
- Genre
- Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Epic, Paranormal & Urban, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Published
- August 2, 2005
- Pages
- 704
- Reading time
- 13 hr 59 min · ~34 nights at 25 min/day in Moth
- ISBN
- 9780441013593
- Language
- en
Publisher's summary
Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece: a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides, who would become known as Muad'Dib, and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.
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