The Worlds of Dune : The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert

The Worlds of Dune : The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank HerbertAuthor: Huddleston, Tom Film guides & reviews Published on 5 October 2023 by Quarto Publishing PLC (Frances Lincoln) in the United Kingdom. Hardback 208 pages, 200 colour photos 217 x 267 x 25 1070g 'An impressive work of granular Dunesploitation.' Empire Magazine Some writers build worlds. Others birth entire universes. In the decades since its publication, Frank Herberts Dune has become arguably the best selling and certainly the best known science

Author: Huddleston, Tom

Film guides & reviews

Published on 5 October 2023 by Quarto Publishing PLC (Frances Lincoln) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 208 pages, 200 colour photos
217 x 267 x 25 | 1070g

'An impressive work of granular Dunesploitation.' - Empire Magazine Some writers build worlds. Others birth entire universes.  In the decades since its publication, Frank Herbert’s Dune has become arguably the best-selling and certainly the best-known science fiction novel ever written. So how did an ex-Navy newspaperman from Washington State come to write such a world-conquering novel? And how was he able to pack it with so many layers of myth and meaning?  Herbert’s boundless imagination was sparked by a dizzying array of ideas, from classical history to cutting-edge science, from environmentalism to Zen philosophy, and from Arabic texts to Shakespeare’s tragedies.

Beginning on Arrakis and going planet by planet, The Worlds of Dune offers a supremely deep dive into Herbert's universe – detailing along the way the many diverse strands that he wove into his epic creation to offer a visually rich accompaniment to this sci-fi legend.