- Science Fiction, Fiction, Dune (Imaginary place), Anglais (langue)
With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. In this, the fifth and most spectacular Dune book of all, the planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love...
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Epic, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Frank Herbert
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 512
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Putnam, Putnam Adult
- Editions
- 48
- Language
- Spanish, Polish, tur, French
- ISBN
- 9782221264577
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Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science-fiction author, best known for his 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels. He also wrote short stories and worked as a newspaper journalist, photographer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and lecturer. Dune is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time, and the series is a classic of the science-fiction genre. The series has been adapted numerous times, including the feature film David Lynch's Dune (1984), the miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune (2000) and Children of Dune (2003), and a motion picture trilogy currently in production, with Denis Villeneuve's Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024)
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