Format:
Book
Author:
Herbert, Frank.
Title:
Dune / Frank Herbert.
Edition:
First Putnam ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Putnam, 1984, ©1965.
Description:
517 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium. Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting.
Series:
Dune chronicles ; bk. 1
Herbert, Frank. Dune chronicles ; bk. 1.
Subjects:
Dune (Imaginary place) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Science fiction.
Notes:
Accelerated Reader AR 5.7 28.0 18556. UG.
9-12 7.7 31.0 3387. Reading Counts RC.
Nebula Award winner, novel, 1965.
Contents:
Dune -- Maud'Dib -- Appendix I: Ecology of Dune -- Appendix II: Religion of Dune -- Appendix III: Report on Bene Gessereit motives and pruposes -- Appendix IV:Almanak en-Ashraf (selected excerpts of the Noble Houses) -- Terminilogy of the Imperium -- Map.
Web Site:
LCCN:
83016030
ISBN:
9780441005901
044100590X
9780441013593
0441013597
9780441172719
0441172717
9780399128967
0399128964
Other Number:
9853222
System Availability:
26
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
26
Control Number:
20201
Call Number:
FICTION Herbert ^Science fiction
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
1
# System items in:
1