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Dune

By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, Ilyana Kadushin, Byron Jennings, David R. Gordon, Jason Culp, Kent Broadhurst, Oliver Wyman, Patricia Kilgarriff, Scott Sowers
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Publisher's summary

Long-listed, Audible.com Best of the Year, 2007

Long-listed, Audible.com 100 Audible Essentials, 2007

Audie Award winner, 2008

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Stellan Skarsgård, and Charlotte Rampling

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family—and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

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. Frank Herbert's death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever.

©1965 Frank Herbert (P)2007 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC

Critic reviews

Audie Award Winner, Science Fiction, 2008
Nebula Award winner, Best Novel, 1965
Hugo Award winner, Best Novel, 1966

"Unique...I know nothing comparable to it except Lord of the Rings." (Arthur C. Clarke)

"One of the monuments of modern science fiction." (Chicago Tribune)

"Powerful, convincing, and most ingenious." (Robert A. Heinlein)

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Beyond raising fascinating possibilities, the best works of science fiction ask big questions: What does it mean to be human? What will the future look like? What mysteries does the universe hold, and what do they mean for life on Earth? Whether you choose to escape via audiobook, movie, or television, these science fiction stories are truly out of this world—in all their incarnations.

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great

wish the voice actors had been consistent, swapped around very often. but an amazing story.

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Big fan for decades

Wonderfully read. I’ve read the books to the point of memorization. But in Audible I picked up things that somehow I had always missed.

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A Brilliant Classic

loved it in my youth. appreciate it more now.
artistic in the reading with a deft hand in the application if effects.

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One of the best

One of the best produced audio books I've listened to. Occasional ambient music and multi actor cast leant a lot to the overall production.

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classic Scifi, well read and produced

This is a long story, so be prepared. I happen to really enjoy it, I liked the voices for the performance, I guess I do something similar when I read in my head. If you have never read this, and only seen the movie (any of them), you should read it, or listen to the audio book, it's such a detailed and rich story that a single movie cannot really do it justice.

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Loved it.

Better with more voice actors. Hope to see more of this in the future. Bravo!!

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I was so so

it's a good story. worth the listen. I'm not a fan of the ensemble cast. feels more like a production than a word for word book.

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Worth every hour every minute.

This teleplay.. Is one of the best produced that I've listened to. Pointing to listening to it again

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A Fantastic Rendition of a True Classic

I was captivated by this book, utterly entralled. My single complaint is the alternation between voice actors and primary narrator who did voices. I loved both but the inconsistency of two people voicing multiple characters unpredictably throughout the book did weigh on my enjoyment. If I could've, I would've taken a star from the production choices instead of performance, because each reader did their role well. It's just a matter of what they were told to read and when.

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Generally good voice acting but..

I enjoyed this rendition except they seemed to change voice actors for Baron Harkonnen based on who else was in the scene. Seriously confusing and unacceptable.

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