Work · Novel · 1965

Dune

Frank Herbert, author

Publisher: Chilton Books
Units: 3 books (Dune, Muad'Dib, The Prophet)

A desert-planet epic of prophecy, ecology, and empire. Young Paul Atreides survives his family's betrayal on Arrakis, the only source of the universe's most valuable resource, and rises among its native Fremen toward a destiny he dreads more than welcomes. Each chapter opens with an epigraph from the in-universe writings of Princess Irulan.

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Novel 1965 → Film 2021 · Direct adaptationDunePart One keeps 19 of the novel's 27 mapped units and stops at the Jamis duel, a chapter break roughly halfway through Book Two. It omits the Arrakeen banquet, Thufir Hawat's captivity arc, and Feyd-Rautha, recasts Liet-Kynes as a woman, and leaves the rest of the novel to Part Two.67composite · editorial

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Same title, mixed machine

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