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The Worlds of Dune The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert

9780711282117

The Worlds of Dune The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert

  • ISBN 13:

    9780711282117

  • ISBN 10:

    0711282110

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 09/26/2023
  • Publisher: Frances Lincoln
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Summary

"An impressive work of granular Dunesploitation."
- Empire Magazine

Some writers build worlds. Others birth entire universes. 


In the decades since its publication, Frank Herbert’s Dune has become arguably the best-selling and certainly the best-known science fiction novel ever written. So how did an ex-Navy newspaperman from Washington State come to write such a world-conquering novel? And how was he able to pack it with so many layers of myth and meaning

Herbert’s boundless imagination was sparked by a dizzying array of ideas, from classical history to cutting-edge science, from environmentalism to Zen philosophy, and from Arabic texts to Shakespeare’s tragedies.

Beginning on Arrakis and going planet by planet, The Worlds of Dune offers a supremely deep dive into Herbert's universe – detailing along the way the many diverse strands that he wove into his epic creation to offer a visually rich accompaniment to this sci-fi legend.

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