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Dune » (25TH ANNIVERSARY)

Book cover image of Dune by Frank Herbert

Authors: Frank Herbert
ISBN-13: 9780441172719, ISBN-10: 0441172717
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: September 1990
Edition: 25TH ANNIVERSARY

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Author Biography: Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs—including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter and editor of several West Coast newspapers—before becoming a full-time writer.

Book Synopsis

Introducing a true publishing event—an all-new recording of Frank Herbert's "astonishing science fiction phenomenon."* Beginning with Dune and culminating with the masterwork Chapterouse Dune, Audio Renaissance brings a new generation to the classic, epic series that is a landmark of science fiction

*The Washington Post


— The New York Times - Gerald Jonas

So completely did Mr. Herbert work out the interactions of man and beast and geography and climate that [ Dune] became the standard for a new subgenre of `ecological' science fiction.

Table of Contents

Dune 1
Muad'Dib 201
The Prophet 363
Appendix I: The Ecology of Dune 493
Appendix II: The Religion of Dune 500
Appendix III: Report on Bene Gesserit Motives and Purposes 508
Appendix IV: The Almanaken-Ashraf (Selected Excerpts of the Noble Houses) 511
Terminology of the Imperium 513
Map 536

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