The Worlds of Dune
eBook - ePub

The Worlds of Dune

The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Worlds of Dune

The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert

About this book

"An impressive work of granular Dunesploitation."
- Empire Magazine

Some writers build worlds. Others birth entire universes. 


In the decades since its publication, Frank Herbert’s Dune has become arguably the best-selling and certainly the best-known science fiction novel ever written. So how did an ex-Navy newspaperman from Washington State come to write such a world-conquering novel? And how was he able to pack it with so many layers of myth and meaning

Herbert’s boundless imagination was sparked by a dizzying array of ideas, from classical history to cutting-edge science, from environmentalism to Zen philosophy, and from Arabic texts to Shakespeare’s tragedies.

Beginning on Arrakis and going planet by planet, The Worlds of Dune offers a supremely deep dive into Herbert's universe – detailing along the way the many diverse strands that he wove into his epic creation to offer a visually rich accompaniment to this sci-fi legend.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction: The Maker
  5. Part One Arrakis
  6. Part Two Caladan
  7. Part Three Giedi Prime
  8. Part Four Kaitain
  9. Epilogue: Dune World
  10. Endnotes
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index
  13. Picture Credits
  14. About the Author
  15. Acknowledgements
  16. Dedication
  17. Copyright