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 mankind'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.

Review Citations:

• New York Times Book Review 12/16/2007 pg. 16 (EAN 9780441172719, Mass Market Paperbound)
• Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2014 pg. 22 (EAN 9780441172719, Mass Market Paperbound)
• Booklist 06/01/2007 pg. 116 (EAN 9780792748663, Compact Disc)
• Library Journal 10/15/1999 pg. 112 (EAN 9780441005901, Hardcover)
• Ingram Advance 10/01/1999 pg. 146 (EAN 9780441005901, Hardcover)
• Wilson Fiction Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780441005901, Hardcover)
• Wilson Senior High Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780441005901, Hardcover)

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.