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Literature Dune Chronicles
Dune Chronicles
| The Dune universe, or Duniverse, is the political, scientific, and social fictional setting of author Frank Herbert's six-book series of science fiction novels which began with 1965's Dune. Dune itself is considered by many to be the greatest science fiction novel of all time, was the first bestselling hardcover science fiction novel, and is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history. Dune won the 1966 Hugo Award and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was later adapted into a film in 1984 and a televised miniseries in 2000. In 2003, the novel's first two sequels appeared as a miniseries as well. The Dune universe has also inspired a series of Dune video games, including Dune II, one of the first modern real-time strategy games.
Herbert himself died in 1986. Beginning in 1999, his son Brian Herbert and science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson produced a number of prequel novels, as well as two new novels- Hunters of Dune (2006) and Sandworms of Dune (2007) - which complete the original Dune series. These, like the prequels before them, are partially based on Frank Herbert's notes, discovered a decade after his death. - Wikipedia |
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| Probably the greatest Science Fiction Series of all time, and I didn't even read it, until after watching the SciFi channel's Dune Miniseries. In fact, I missed the original airing of the Dune mini-series in 2000, but caught the re-airing of it a few years later on Canada's Space Channel. I was so enamoured with the mini-series, which by most accounts is really an incomplete and imperfect interpretation (as most television attempts are), that I immediately purchased the first Dune Novel, which had been recently re-issued in mass market paperback. Once I finished the book, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that there wasn't only one book, but six original books, and that Frank Herbert's son, Brian, was actually writing more books! Woohoo!! To date, I've ready all six of Frank Herbert's original novels, now known as the Classic Dune novels, as well as the Legends of Dune and Prelude to Dune novels. I haven't yet read the grand climax (aka Dune 7), which is encompassed in Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune, nor have I read the Heroes of Dune series, although I have each and everyone of them in hardcover editions. |
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| Take a look around the right hand menu, which has links to each of the novels in the series (in publication sequence), and includes a brief synopsis of the novel. In some cases, I've also included a brief review. |