Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. It is the first installment of the Dune saga, and in 2003 it was cited as the world’s best-selling science fiction novel. It has been adapted into a number of films, including the 1984 David Lynch film adaptation and the 2003 sequel Dune Messiah. A new film adaptation directed by Denis Villeneuve is scheduled to be released on October 1, 2021.
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Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. It is the first installment of the Dune saga, and in 2003 it was cited as the world’s best-selling science fiction novel. Dune is set in the distant future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which various noble houses control planetary fiefs. It tells the story of young Paul Atreides, whose family accepts the stewardship of the planet Arrakis. The story explores the multi-layered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion. A new film adaptation directed by Denis Villeneuve is scheduled to be released on October 1, 2021. David Lynch created the 1984 film adaptation of the first novel. It was also adapted into the 2000 Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Frank Herbert’s Dune and its 2003 sequel Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune. A series of computer games, a board game, songs, and a series of follow-ups, including prequels and sequels, that were co-written by Kevin J. Anderson and the author’s son, Brian Herbert, starting in 1999. Since 2009, the names of planets from the Dunes have been adopted for the real-life nomenclature of plains and other features on Saturn’s moon Titan. The novel, Dune, was finally accepted by Chilton Books, a printing house known for publishing auto repair manuals, in August 1965. The serialized version was expanded, reworked and submitted to twenty publishers, each of whom rejected it.
The first serial became \”Book 1: Dune\” in the final published Dune novel, and the second serial was divided into \”Book Two: Muad’dib\” and \”Book Three: The Prophet\”. The novel was published in the January – May 1965 issues of Analog magazine, and was followed by a much slower-paced five-part The Prophet of Dunes in January –May 1965 issues. It has been adapted into a number of films, including the 1984 David Lynch film adaptation and the 2003 sequel Dune Messiah, which was directed by David Lynch. The film adaptation was meant to release in 1975. Alejandro Jodorowsky and producer Michel Seydoux could not get studio support to match the film’s massive budget. The author’s article on the dunes, \”They Stopped the Moving Sands\”, was never completed but its research sparked Herbert’s interest in ecology. Herbert claimed in a letter to his literary agent, Lurton Blassingame, that the moving dunes could \”swallow whole cities, lakes, rivers, highways, highways.\” Herbert dedicated work to the people whose labors go beyond his ideas into the realm of ‘to the dry-land materials’—to the ecologists, wherever they may be, whatever time they work, whatever they work at. \”Duke of Leto Atreide, ruler of the House of Caladan, is assigned by the Emperor Shaddam IV to serve as fief.
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