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Part of the Dune Saga. This is Book 1 of 6 in Frank Herbert’s original Dune series. Get all six novels in one shipment — The Complete Dune Bundle →The Novel That Redefined Science FictionFirst published in 1965, Dune is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time and the winner of the inaugural Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. On the desert planet Arrakis — the only source in the universe of the spice melange — the noble House Atreides is handed control of a world that will destroy them or crown them.What the Book Is AboutWhen betrayal tears his family apart, young Paul Atreides flees into the deep desert and among the Fremen, the hardened native people who dream of turning Arrakis green. What follows is a story of ecology, religion, prophecy, and raw political power — a book about how empires are made, how myths are weaponized, and what a single person can become when the universe bends around him.About This EditionAuthor: Frank HerbertPublisher: Ace BooksFormat: Mass Market PaperboundISBN: 9780441172719 Show more