The Great Dune Trilogy | The Great Dune Trilogy

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Author: Frank Herbert
First Published: 1963
Type of Work: Novels
Type of Plot: Science fiction—galactic empire
Time of Work: The 57th year of the Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV (102d century c.e.) through the following five thousand years
Setting: Primarily Arrakis (the planet called Dune and later Rakis) and Chapterhouse
Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Science fiction, Epic
Subjects: Dictators, Maturation or coming of age, Power, personal or social, Politics, Love or romance, Nature, Revolutions, Extrasensory perception or powers, Future, Other worlds, Space flight or travel, Religion, Obsession, Substance abuse, War, Good and evil, Loyalty, Rulers, Drug addiction or addicts, Drugs, Science fiction, Christ figures or saviors, Reincarnation, Deserts, Superman or superbeings, Worms
Locales: Arrakis (fictive), Dune (fictive)

The Dune series can be seen as a set of three two-volume novels. The first involves the family of Paul Atreides, its battle for the planet Arrakis, and Paul’s coming of age as the messianic Muad’Dib. The second concerns the life of Paul’s son Leto II, from childhood to his ascendancy as God Emperor of Dune. The third deals with the ongoing machinations of the Bene Gesserit (an ancient society of women devoted to mind and body control and eugenics) in their attempt to control the sociopolitical environment of the Dune universe millennia later, as well as the...

The Great Dune Trilogy | The Great Dune Trilogy

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