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Dune / Frank Herbert ; with an afterword by Brian Herbert.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herbert, Frank, author.
- Series:
- Herbert, Frank. Dune chronicles ; book 1.
- Dune Chronicles ; book 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dune (Imaginary place)--Fiction.
- Dune (Imaginary place).
- Life on other planets--Fiction.
- Life on other planets.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 883 pages : map ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- Ace premium edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ace Books, 2010, ©1965.
- Summary:
- Here, in a beautiful new hardcover edition, is the novel that to this day continues to shape modern science fiction. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, a world more awesome than any other in literature, Dune begins the story of the man known as Maud'dib -- and of a great family's plan to bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
- A stunning blend of adventure, mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. Frank Herbert's death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever.
- Contents:
- Dune
- Maud'Dib
- Appendix I: Ecology of Dune
- Appendix II: Religion of Dune
- Appendix III: Report on Bene Gessereit motives and pruposes
- Appendix IV:Almanak en-Ashraf (selected excerpts of the Noble Houses)
- Terminology of the Imperium
- Cartographic notes
- Map
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia, Pa. : Chilton Books, 1965.
- Frequently republished with the same ISBN.
- Ace premium edition: December 2010.
- Cover art by John Schoenherr.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 426303
- ISBN:
- 9780441172719
- 0441172717
- OCLC:
- 881847117
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