Despite this prohibition, humanity continues to develop and advance other branches of technology, including ESP and instruments of war. However, a great reaction against computers has resulted in a ban on any kind of "thinking machine", with the creation or possession of such punishable by immediate death. Faster-than-light travel has been developed, and humans have colonized a vast number of worlds. The Dune saga is set thousands of years in humanity's future. Vital to this empire is the harsh desert planet Arrakis, the only known source of the spice melange, the most valuable substance in the universe.įor the similarities between some of Herbert's terms and ideas and actual words and concepts in the Arabic language, as well as the series' " Islamic undertones" and themes, a Middle Eastern influence in Herbert's works has been widely noted. In their place, civilization has developed advanced mental and physical disciplines as well as advanced technologies that adhere to the ban on computers. Set tens of thousands of years in the future, the saga chronicles a civilization that has banned all " thinking machines", which include computers, robots and artificial intelligence. The political, scientific, and social fictional setting of Herbert's novels and derivative works is known as the Dune universe or Duniverse.
Anderson published several collections of prequel novels, as well as two sequels that complete the original Dune series ( Hunters of Dune in 2006 and Sandworms of Dune in 2007), partially based on Frank Herbert's notes discovered a decade after his death. Beginning in 1999, his son Brian Herbert and science fiction author Kevin J. Since 2009, the names of planets from the Dune novels have been adopted for the real-world nomenclature of plains and other features on Saturn's moon Titan.įrank Herbert died in 1986. Dune has also inspired some traditional games and a series of video games. Herbert wrote five sequels, the first two of which were concomitantly adapted as a 2003 miniseries. The latter will be followed by a 2023 direct sequel. It won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Hugo Award in 1966, and was later adapted into a 1984 film, a 2000 television miniseries, and a 2021 film. Dune is frequently described as the best-selling science fiction novel in history. Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003)ĭune, also known as the Dune Chronicles, is an American science fiction media franchise that originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert and has continued to add new publications.
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