By Frank Herbert
The all time technology fiction masterpiece...now in a different hardcover edition.
"Unique...I recognize not anything equivalent to it other than Lord of the Rings."--Arthur C. Clarke
Here is the radical that may be without end thought of a triumph of the mind's eye. Set at the wasteland planet Arrakis, Dune is the tale of the boy Paul Atreides, who might turn into the mysterious guy often called Maud'dib. He may avenge the traitorous plot opposed to his noble family--and might carry to fruition humankind's so much historic and impossible dream.
A beautiful mix of experience and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune received the 1st Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and shaped the root of what's surely the grandest epic in technological know-how fiction. Frank Herbert's loss of life in 1986 used to be a sad loss, but the staggering legacy of his visionary fiction will dwell forever.
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He asked himself. I know as a doctor there was no physical reason against it. Was there some Bene Gesserit reason? Was she, perhaps, instructed to serve a different purpose? What could it have been? She loved me, certainly. For the first time, he was caught up in the thought that he might be part of a pattern more involuted and complicated than his mind could grasp. " he murmured. She glanced at him, catching the odd tone, but her mind was still on Paul, thinking of the new rigors in his training here, thinking of the differences in his life now--so very different from the life they once had planned for him.
It was an old filmbook from before discovery of the spice. Names flitted through Paul's mind, each with its picture imprinted by the book's mnemonic pulse: saguaro, burro bush, date palm, sand verbena, evening primrose, barrel cactus, incense bush, smoke tree, creosote bush . . kit fox, desert hawk, kangaroo mouse . . Names and pictures, names and pictures from man's terranic past--and many to be found now nowhere else in the universe except here on Arrakis. So many new things to learn about--the spice.
He's allowing the opt. " "My Lord . . " She broke off, hesitating. " He will not be persuaded against trying to make this planet secure for us, she thought. And I cannot use my tricks on him. " she asked. That's not what she was going to say, he thought. Ah-h-h-h, my Jessica, would that we were somewhere else, anywhere away from this terrible place -alone, the two of us, without a care. "I'll eat in the officers' mess at the field," he said. "Don't expect me until very late. And . ah, I'll be sending a guardcar for Paul.
