Frank Herbert

Set on a desert planet, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious Maud'dib, avenge a plot against his family, and bring to fruition humankind's most ancient dream....

The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment....

The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile....

More than 3,000 years have passed since the first events recorded in Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides....

On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, 10 times 10 centuries have passed. The children of Dune's children awaken as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love....

The desert planet Arrakis has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world - and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile....

The last survivors of humanity have just been deposited on Pandora, a horrific, poisonous planet rife with deadly nerve-runners, hooded dashers, airborne jellyfish, and intelligent kelp....

The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of colonists en route to Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship's three organic mental cores go insane....

Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, conditioned by constant hunger and war....

In the far future, humankind has made contact with numerous other species and has helped to form the ConSentiency to govern between the species....