Average Rating:

4.2 rating based on 611,183 ratings (all editions)

ISBN-10: 0340839937
ISBN-13: 9780340839935
Goodreads: 234225

Author(s): Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 6/1/2006

Set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar empire where planetary dynasties are controlled by noble houses that owe an allegiance to the imperial House Corrino, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides (the heir apparent to Duke Leto Atreides and heir of House Atreides) as he and his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the 'spice' melange, the most important and valuable substance in the cosmos. The story explores the complex, multi-layered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion as the forces of the empire confront each other for control of Arrakis.

Published in 1965, it won the Hugo Award in 1966 and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. Dune is frequently cited as the world's best-selling sf novel.

Average Rating:

3.9 rating based on 107,050 ratings (all editions)

ISBN-10: 0441172695
ISBN-13: 9780441172696
Goodreads: 106

Author(s): Publisher: Ace Books
Published: 7/15/1987

Dune Messiah continues the story of the man Muad'dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to completion the centuries-old scheme to create a super-being."Brilliant...It is all that Dune was, and maybe a little bit more."--Galaxy Magazine

Average Rating:

3.9 rating based on 91,299 ratings (all editions)

ISBN-10: 0441104029
ISBN-13: 9780441104024
Goodreads: 112

Author(s): Publisher: Ace Books
Published: 5/15/1987

The desert planet of Arrakis has begun to grow green and lush. The life-giving spice is abundant. The nine-year-old royal twins, possesing their father's supernatural powers, are being groomed as Messiahs.
But there are those who think the Imperium does not need messiahs...

Average Rating:

3.8 rating based on 58,654 ratings (all editions)

ISBN-10: 0575075066
ISBN-13: 9780575075061
Goodreads: 42432

Author(s): Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Published: 3/13/2003

More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species. But to achieve his final victory, Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall...

Average Rating:

3.9 rating based on 48,829 ratings (all editions)

ISBN-10: 0441328008
ISBN-13: 9780441328000
Goodreads: 117

Author(s): Publisher: Ace Books
Published: 8/15/1987

With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. In this, the fifth and most spectacular Dune book of all, the planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love...

Average Rating:

3.9 rating based on 41,624 ratings (all editions)

ISBN-10: 0441102670
ISBN-13: 9780441102679
Goodreads: 105

Author(s): Publisher: Ace Books
Published: 7/1/1987

The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world--and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile.
Here is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death. A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever...