![]() ![]() Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel, 1965 ![]() Joint winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel, 1966 They have been waiting for a leader like Paul Atreides, a leader who can harness that force …ĭUNE: one of the most brilliant science fiction novels ever written, as engrossing and heart-rending today as it was when it was first published half a century ago. Then Paul succeeds his father, and he becomes a catalyst for the native people of Dune, whose knowledge of the ecology of the planet gives them vast power. ![]() The Duke and his son, Paul, are expecting treachery, and it duly comes – but from a shockingly unexpected place. ![]() Although it is almost completely without water, Dune is a planet of fabulous wealth, for it is the only source of a drug prized throughout the Galactic Empire. The Duke of Atreides has been manoeuvred by his arch-enemy, Baron Harkonnen, into administering the desert planet of Dune. ‘It is possible that Dune is even more relevant now than when it was first published’ NEW YORKER ‘I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings’ Arthur C Clarke ‘An astonishing science fiction phenomenon’ WASHINGTON POST ![]()
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