NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Chang Chen, Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem.Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.Set on … the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for….
When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will 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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This is hands down Herbert’s best book. You can read it as a stand-alone and it will be satisfying. Herbert wrote a somewhat erratic series built on the universe he started here, but it kind of drags. Dune is, however, a true science fiction classic.
For me this is the best book ever. Read it a few times now and I’ll read it again. Can’t wait for the new film version. The 80s film was a huge disappointment. New one looks worth the time.
Book one of the series – I have read and reread this book! I NEVER reread books (well, almost never!). Dune grabbed me from chapter one! Worldbuilding!
Sci-fi at its best. Frank Herbert wrote a phenomenal, intriguing, and engrossing tale that is the epitome of science fiction fantasy.
Extremely intricate, not Russian novel intricate but very intricate. A world like no other in Sci-Fi with characters to match.
The greatest Science Fiction book ever written
One of my top ten all-time favorite books. A complex, imaginative plot with so much depth and so many layers that it never gets old no matter how many times I re-read it. The characters are fascinating with human faults and problems providing a rich cast set against some of most complex world-building that I have ever seen. Definitely an A+ (5 stars).
Dune is a rich soufflė of struggles for power and control over rare resources, to spice it all up, add some giant sandworms for good measure.
I loved it. Very deep and I had to re-read sections to fully grasp, but worth it.
I read this book years ago. I wanted to read it again because a new movie is coming out. I loved it, and was surprised how fast I read through it! It definitely kept me entranced. I immediately purchased the next in the series!
An amazing book, first read this book almost fifty years ago, loved the characters. The first time you read it you can hardly put the book down.
Excellent
Dune is one of the few sci-fi classics that I’ve actually enjoyed. It’s a little slow to start but keep pushing through because the world Herbert created is fantastic. I totally have to read it again, before the new TV series comes out.
A favorite!
An incredible blend of politics, religion, and ecology. This story set the bar for all future science fiction epics. You can see traces of it in most other science fiction and fantasy shows, books, and movies today. I can only hope to one day write something close to being this memorable. “The Spice must flow!”
A classic of epic proportions.
Classic. Must read.
One of the most over-rated SciFi novels of all time. Great cure for insomnia.
Introduction to one of THE best sci-fi book and series of all time. Read it about once a decade and your perspective will ALWAYS change.
This book is often described as science fiction, but it’s much more than that.The science fiction elements actually take a backseat to all the political, religious, and metaphysical aspects of the story. Science fiction is of course essential and present (interstellar travel, force fields, etc.) but they are more mechanically present than crucial.
Interstellar travel relies on a mind-altering substance called spice that is only found on Arrakis. The struggle to control that resource is where the entire series is told.
Science fiction begins to play a bigger role in some of the sequels, but the original six books span about five thousand years, and while they are plot devices, they’re just another plot device to move the story; it’s much less about the technology than about the human element. It’s also a tremendously dense read.
Dune provides one of the best examples of world building in all of literature. It is supposedly based in our own universe, (humanity’s time on Earth being their ancient history) The religions and cultures of Dune are also rooted in our history. For example, Fremen are Zensunni, which is an amalgam of Sunni Islam and Zen Buddhism. Political, economic, religious, familial, and cultural forces are all at work in the Dune universe.
I highly recommend this series to all that wish to get lost in an epic adventure.