Dune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert and published in 1965. A joint winner of the 1966 Hugo Award and the winner of the first Nebula Award for Best Novel, Dune is popularly considered one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history and was the first bestselling hardcover science fiction novel ever.
Dune is set far in the future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar empire where planetary fiefdoms are controlled by noble Houses that owe allegiance to the Imperial House Corrino. The novel tells the story of young Paul Atreides (heir apparent to Duke Leto Atreides and scion of House Atreides) as he and his family relocate to the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the spice melange, the most important and valuable substance in the universe. In a story that explores the complex and multilayered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion, the fate of Paul, his family, his new planet and its native inhabitants, as well as the Padishah Emperor, the powerful Spacing Guild, and the secretive female order of the Bene Gesserit, are all drawn together into a confrontation that will change the course of humanity.
This will be the third attempt at a movie production in general fallowing the re-imagined and controversial, David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive) adaption in 1984 and John Harrison's "Frank Herbert's Dune" which he both wrote and directed hitting the Scifi Channel in 2000. John Harrison (Supernova, Book of Blood) also released the Frank Herbert sequels, "Dune Messiah" and "Children of Dune" in 2003 under the latter title as a single mini-series related to the first. All adaptions are debatably considered failures by some and complete hits by others.
(lire moins)Dune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert and published in 1965. A joint winner of the 1966 Hugo Award and the winner of the first Nebula Award for Best Novel, Dune is popularly considered one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history and was the first bestselling hardcover science fiction novel ever.
Dune is set far in the future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar empire where planetary...
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