Worlds of Dune The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert
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Tom Huddleston is an author, journalist and musician based in North London. His novels include several science fiction and fantasy stories for younger readers including the eco-futuristic FloodWorld trilogy. He spent a decade on the Film desk at Time Out magazine and is now a freelance Film & TV journalist writing for, among others, The Guardian and Little White Lies.<p><i>'Part analysis, part history book, Huddleston's tome covers Herbert's myriad influences, from Soviet Imperialism to the Irish Catholic matriarchs who informed the Bene Gesserit. An impressice work of granular Dunesploitation'. </i></p>
Empire Magazine
<p><i>'An in-depth exploration of the places, events, and cultures that captivated Herbet during the writing of Dune, and became integral in his world-building'.</i></p>
Creative Review
<p><i>'a beautifully designed book exploring the ideas and concepts behind this science fiction classic'.</i></p>
Dune Scholar
- 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.
Part One ARRAKIS
Chapter One: Desert Planet
Chapter Two: The Fremen
Chapter Three: The Spice
Part Two CALADAN
Chapter Four: House Atreides
Chapter Five: Paul Muad’dib
Chapter Six: Lady Jessica and the Bene Gesserit
Part Three GIEDI PRIME
Chapter Seven: House Harkonnen
Chapter Eight: Piter De Vries and the Mentats
Chapter Nine: The CHOAM Corporation
Part Four KAITAIN
Chapter Ten: House Corrino and the Padishah Emperor
Chapter Eleven: The Landsraad
Chapter Twelve: The Spacing Guild
Epilogue: Dune World
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
Picture Credits
About the Author & Acknowledgements