Dune, Volume 1

Frank Herbert

Penguin, Aug 2, 2005 - Fiction - 704 pages

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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.

Contents

• DUNE: 1
• MUADDIB: 197
• THE PROPHET: 353
• The Ecology of Dune: 477
• The Religion of Dune: 484
• Report on Bene Gesserit Motives and Purposes: 492
• The Almanak enAshraf Selected Excerpts of the Noble Houses: 495
• Terminology of the Imperium: 497
• Map: 518
• Afterword: 521

About the author

Frank Herbert is the bestselling author of the Dune saga. He was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs—including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter and editor of several West Coast newspapers—before becoming a full-time writer.

In 1952, Herbert began publishing science fiction with “Looking for Something?” in Startling Stories. But his emergence as a writer of major stature did not occur until 1965, with the publication of Dune. Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune followed, completing the saga that the Chicago Tribune would call “one of the monuments of modern science fiction.” Herbert is also the author of some twenty other books, including The White Plague, The Dosadi Experiment, and Destination: Void. He died in 1986.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Dune, Volume 1
• Author: Frank Herbert
• Edition: reprint, annotated
• Publisher: Penguin, 2005
• ISBN: 0441013597, 9780441013593
• Length: 704 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Fantasy / Epic; Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera