Dune

by Herbert, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780441005901
• ISBN10: 044100590X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Ace Hardcover

Summary

Here, in a beautiful new hardcover edition, is the novel that to this day continues to shape modern science fiction. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, a world more awesome than any other in literature, Dune begins the story of the man known as Maud'dib -- and of a great family's plan to bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

A stunning blend of adventure, 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. Frank Herbert's death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever.

Author Biography

Frank Herbert 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. He died in 1986.

Table of Contents

Dune	1	(196)
Muad'Dib	197	(156)
The Prophet	353	(124)
Appendix I: The Ecology of Dune	477	(7)
Appendix II: The Religion of Dune	484	(8)
Appendix III: Report on Bene Gesserit Motives and Purposes	492	(3)
Appendix IV: The Almanak en-Ashraf (Selected Excerpts of the Noble Houses)	495	(2)
Terminology of the Imperium	497	(21)
Map	518