02550cam a2200409 i 4500 1296911563 TxAuBib 20240603120000.0 900926t19901965||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780441172719 pbk. 0441172717 pbk. 9780606031110 Turtleback 0606031111 Turtleback (OCoLC)22440469 TxAuBib rda Herbert, Frank, author. Dune / Frank Herbert. Ace special 25th anniversary edition. New York : Ace Books, 1990. ©1965. 535 pages : map ; 18 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Dune chronicles, The ; 1 "Ace science fiction"--Spine. This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium. Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. 20240603. Dune (Imaginary place) Fiction. Science fiction, American. Fantasy. Science fiction. lcgft Science fiction. fast Science fiction. fast Fiction. fast The Dune chronicles ; 1.