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Dune by Frank Herbert

ISBN: 9780340839935
Release Date: 05 Jun 2006
Average rating: (read by 694 members)

Categories: Science fiction

This Hugo and Nebula Award winner is widely to be considered the most prescient SF novel ever. It tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privileges, however, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.

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	claireE
	Rated it 1 months ago

I loved this book and the characters. I genuinely couldn't put it down from start to finish. This was the first science fiction book i had ever read and have been interested in them ever since.

	alariss
	Rated it 1 months ago

If I can say, that the one book formed my mind, I would say that this story make it. Dune makes real world somthing unreal, what is only covering real life.

	gillshutt Full Review
	Rated it 1 months ago

I read this book many years ago when it was new, yes ok I'm old. I still remember the feeling of awe and of the real world falling away from around me as I was transported on to the sand where giant worms waited to kill me.
I would recommend this book...

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