Adams, John Joseph (August 9, 2006). "New Dune Books Resume Story". SciFi.com (Internet Archive). Archived from the original on June 15, 2008 . Retrieved June 15, 2008. Bui, Hoai-Tran (May 3, 2018). "The First Draft of Denis Villeneuve's Dune is Done, Pre-Production Begins 'Soon' ". /Film. Archived from the original on July 15, 2018 . Retrieved July 16, 2018. Six licensed Dune computer and video games have been released. The first was Dune (1992) from Cryo Interactive/ Virgin Interactive. [188] [189] Another game developed at the same time, Westwood Studios' Dune II (1992), is generally credited for popularizing and setting the template for the real-time strategy genre of computer games. [190] [191] Dune II is considered to be among the most influential video games of all time. [192]

Walter, Norman (1950). The Sexual Cycle of Human Warfare. Archived from the original on April 12, 2019 . Retrieved June 28, 2019– via gwern.net. a b Kunzru, Hari (July 3, 2015). " Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on February 11, 2019 . Retrieved February 11, 2019. A lot of people refer to Dune as science fiction. I never do. I consider it an epic adventure in the classic storytelling tradition, a story of myth and legend not unlike the Morte d'Arthur or any messiah story. It just happens to be set in the future...The story is actually more relevant today than when Herbert wrote it. In the 1960s, there were just these two colossal superpowers duking it out. Today we're living in a more feudal, corporatized world more akin to Herbert's universe of separate families, power centers and business interests, all interrelated and kept together by the one commodity necessary to all. [84]O'Reilly, Tim. "Chapter 3: From Concept to Fable". Frank Herbert. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012 . Retrieved December 27, 2019.

Jodorowsky, Alejandro (1985). " Dune: Le Film Que Vous Ne Verrez Jamais ( Dune: The Film You Will Never See)". Métal Hurlant. DuneInfo.com. Archived from the original on April 29, 2011 . Retrieved February 20, 2017. Frank Herbert’s immortal space opera that created many of the tropes we take for granted inside them is a book that doesn’t need my endorsement . . . the nobility is some of the most decadent and depraved in fiction . . . It’s a fantastic book, amazing story‘ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The first part of Denis Villeneuve’s movie adaptation was received exceptionally well by both audiences and critics, indicating that Dune may have finally achieved a breakthrough in pop culture to match Tolkien. This was helped by a star-studded and devoted cast made up of Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Oscar Isacc, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and many more. This is sure to be repeated with the release of Part Two on November 3, 2023. The film will see the addition of actors like Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan, Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, Christopher Walken as Shaddam IV, and more. But new fans coming to the books by way of Villeneuve's films may struggle to find the proper starting place. There are many more Dune novels than there are for Middle-earth, stretching in two directions in time out from the original Dune book of 1965. Different books cover different conflicts, each with some relation to one another, and then there are all those strange names and terminology to keep straight. Bardinelli, John (April 30, 2015). "Dune at 50: Pop Culture Is Hooked on Spice". Barnes & Noble. Archived from the original on September 16, 2020 . Retrieved April 13, 2020.The Dune universe, set in the distant future of humanity, has a history that stretches thousands of years (some 15,000 years in total) and covers considerable changes in political, social, and religious structure as well as technology. Creative works set in the Dune universe can be said to fall into five general time periods: a b c O'Reilly, Tim. "Chapter 2: Under Pressure". Frank Herbert. Archived from the original on December 30, 2007 . Retrieved March 26, 2019.

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As explained in Dune, the Butlerian Jihad is a conflict taking place over 11,000 years in the future [7] (and over 10,000 years before the events of Dune), which results in the total destruction of virtually all forms of "computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots". [8] With the prohibition "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind," the creation of even the simplest thinking machines is outlawed and made taboo, [8] which has a profound influence on the socio-political and technological development of humanity in the Dune series. [9] Herbert refers to the Jihad several times in the novels, but does not give much detail on how he imagined the causes and nature of the conflict. [10] Critical analysis has often associated the term with Samuel Butler and his 1863 essay " Darwin among the Machines", which advocated the destruction of all advanced machines. [11] Tilley, E. Allen (February 1978). "The Modes of Fiction: A Plot Morphology". College English. 39 (6): 692–706. doi: 10.2307/375873. JSTOR 375873. a b c d e f g h i Michaud, Jon (July 12, 2013). " Dune Endures". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on August 22, 2015 . Retrieved August 18, 2015. Anderson, Kevin J. (November 25, 2014). "Brainstorming NAVIGATORS OF DUNE". KJAblog.com. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015 . Retrieved April 6, 2016. Fleming Jr, Mike (February 14, 2019). " Aquaman 's Jason Momoa Joins Killer Cast of Denis Villenueve's Dune". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on February 15, 2019 . Retrieved February 14, 2019.The Dune saga is set thousands of years in humanity's future. Faster-than-light travel has been developed, and humans have colonized a vast number of worlds. 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. Despite this prohibition, humanity continues to develop and advance other branches of technology, including ESP and instruments of war. At the time of the first book's setting, humanity has formed a feudal interstellar empire known as the Imperium, run by several Great Houses that oversee various planets. Of key interest is the planet Arrakis, known as "Dune". A desert planet with nearly no precipitation, it is the only planet where a special life-extending drug, melange or "the spice", can be found. In addition to life extension, melange enhances the mental capacity of humans: it allows for the mutated Spacing Guild pilots to navigate folded space and travel the distances between planets; and triggers some of the powers of the Bene Gesserit, a religious group that secretly seeks to control the direction humanity takes. Melange is difficult to acquire, not only due to the harsh environment of Arrakis, but also the presence of giant sandworms that are drawn towards any rhythmic sounds on the sands of the desert. Control of Arrakis, its spice production, and the impact on humanity's development become the centerpoints of a millennia-long conflict that develops through the series. In the 1999 gazetteer The Stars and Planets of Frank Herbert's Dune: A Gazetteer (1999), Joseph M. Daniels estimates the distance from Earth in light-years (ly) for many Dune planets, based on the real-life distances of the stars and planetary systems referenced by Frank Herbert when discussing these planets in the glossary of the novel Dune. Though Herbert used the names of actual stars and planetary systems in his work, there is no documentation supporting or disputing the assumption that he was, in fact, referring to these real-life stars or systems. [74] The Science of Dune (2008) analyzes and deconstructs many of Herbert's concepts and fictional inventions. [75] [76] [77] Herbert's interest in the desert setting of Dune and its challenges is attributed to research he began in 1957 for a never-completed article about a United States Department of Agriculture experiment using poverty grass to stabilize damaging sand dunes, which could "swallow whole cities, lakes, rivers, and highways." [30] Herbert spent the next five years researching, writing, and revising what would eventually become the novel Dune, [30] which was initially serialized in Analog magazine as two shorter works, Dune World (1963) and The Prophet of Dune (1965). [31] The serialized version was expanded and reworked—and rejected by more than 20 publishers—before being published by Chilton Books, a printing house best known for its auto repair manuals, in 1965. [32] Dune won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966, and the 1966 Hugo Award. [33] [34] The novel has been translated into dozens of languages, and has sold almost 20 million copies. [35] Dune has been regularly cited as one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels. [1] [2] Hume, Kathryn (October 1974). "Romance: A Perdurable Pattern". College English. 36 (2): 129–146. doi: 10.2307/374771. JSTOR 374771. Herbert, Frank (1965). Dune. We've a three-point civilization: the Imperial Household balanced against the Federated Great Houses of the Landsraad, and between them, the Guild with its damnable monopoly on interstellar transport.