Dune - Frank Herbert

Dune - Frank Herbert: Desert that's Out of this World (509 words)
by LJTwo - written on 22.12.07 (Very useful, 122 readings)
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Frank Herbert was born in 1920 and created one of the most famous novels in the history of science fiction, Dune. He grew up in Washington state in the USA and Frank loved reading as a child reading the stories of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and the science fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs. From a young age he knew he wanted to be an author. However, Frank was very independent and he wrote what he wanted to write and this meant he inevitably had a hard time making a living, bouncing from job to job and from town to town. In the end, after six years of research and writing, he finished Dune. Unfortunately it was rejected by many publishers before it was finally ...

Walk Without Rhythm, and You Won't Attract The Worm (1858 words)
by fromage - written on 10.08.01 (Very useful, 899 readings)
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Dune is one of very few science fiction books which I first read in my teens, which I still give shelf space to and which I feel likely to read again. Written in the sixties, it is a product of its time – consciousness expanding drugs and ecological concerns feature heavily - but it manages to remain relevant, despite the fact that technology has already surpassed what most science fiction writers of that era imagined possible. Frank Herbert has catalogued the future as he sees it exhaustively. Arrakis, or Dune, the desert planet on which the space drama unfolds, has a deceptively rich and varied ecology, one which Herbert has tortured into a logical form ...

Dune - Frank Herbert: Dune (1041 words)
by Paradis - written on 15.02.05 (Very useful, 94 readings)
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Melange, is a spice grown only on the desert terrain of Arrakis, a hot, barren planet, known to it's inhabitants as Dune. It is a harsh, unforgiving place to live, with vicious, giant sandworms living under the sand, that guard the precious spice, and no water at all. Melange has special properties, allowing pilots to see into the future, helping them with their space travel. Without the spice, they would not be able to travel. The spice also prolongs the life of those that use it, and is highly addictive. Duke Leto is given the planet Arrakis to look after and control, he is a gentle and kind man, with many good qualities, considering the harsh ...