Dune (movie Tie-in)
Penguin Publishing Group · Paperback · September 26, 2023
Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.
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- Who it’s for
- A classic blend of scale, danger, and enough clarity to keep you moving.
- Themes
- environmentalism, politics, mysticism
- Pacing
- Mixed
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Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides−who would become known as Maud'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.
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A stunning blend of adventure and 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.
Big-Screen Gravity
A classic blend of scale, danger, and enough clarity to keep you moving.
Come here for
- cultural cachet with actual page-turning momentum
- layered worldbuilding, readable on the first pass
Expect
- sustained narrative sweep
- playful, straightforward tone
Where it sits
| Space Opera | 71% |
|---|---|
| Media Tie-In | 45% |
| The Classics | 23% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Media Tie-In
- Space Opera
- Authors
- Frank Herbert, Frank Patrick Herbert
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- September 26, 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- environmentalism · politics · mysticism
- Reading lane
- The Classics