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Dune, Fiction, Science fiction, Space opera, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Plant ecology
The third novel in the multi-award-winning Dune series -- the most famous, widely acclaimed and popular of all science fiction novels, named one of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, which inspired the the jaw-dropping cinematic adaptations Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two.
What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting Children of Dune, the third book in one of the most influential series of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century, this is an awe-inspiring world, and a story of truly epic scope.
The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone.
But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy.
Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions - but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens ...
Read the series which inspired the Academy Award-winning and jaw-dropping cinematic events Dune: Part One (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024). A science fiction spectacular like no other, this is a deeply climate conscious novel, and a compelling family saga for the ages.
Dune reading order:
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse Dune
Praise for Children Of Dune: The inspiration for the blockbuster film
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I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings - Arthur C. Clarke on Dune
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It is possible that Dune is even more relevant now than when it was first published - New Yorker on Dune
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An astonishing science fiction phenomenon - Washington Post on Dune
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Science-fiction at its most majestic, unsettling and enveloping - Daily Telegraph
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A sweeping work of science-fiction that helped define the genre and bring it to the mainstream - The Indepedent
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Dune: science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings - The Guardian
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Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert (1920-86) was born in Tacoma, Washington and worked as a reporter and later editor of a number of West Coast newspapers before becoming a full-time writer. His first SF story was published in 1952 but he achieved fame more than ten years later with the publication in Analog of 'Dune World' and 'The Prophet of Dune' that were amalgamated in the novel Dune in 1965.
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