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Dune has been regularly cited as one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels. [1] [2] A sequel, Dune Messiah, followed in 1969. [36] A third novel called Children of Dune was published in 1976, and was later nominated for a Hugo Award. [37] Children of Dune became the first hardcover best-seller ever in the science fiction field. [38]
Nullentropy – Technology akin to the science fiction concept of stasis, in which the natural processes of time, such as decomposition, are ceased. In this way, perishable matter such as food and even human cells may be stored for millennia and remain undamaged. [21] [8]
Reviews of the novel have been largely positive, and Dune is considered by some critics to be the best science fiction book ever written. [84] The novel has been translated into dozens of languages, and has sold almost 20 million copies. [85] Dune has been regularly cited as one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels. [86] [3]
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Arrakis (/ ə ˈ r ɑː k ɪ s /) [1] —informally known as Dune and later called Rakis—is a fictional desert planet featured in the Dune series of novels by Frank Herbert.Herbert's first novel in the series, 1965's Dune, is considered one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, [2] and it is sometimes cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history.
Sisterhood of Dune is a 2012 science fiction novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.It is the first book in their Great Schools of Dune prequel trilogy, which itself is a sequel to their Legends of Dune trilogy.
The Dune prequel series is a sequence of novel trilogies written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.Set in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert, the novels take place in various time periods before and in between Herbert's original six novels, which began with 1965's Dune.
Compound dunes are large dunes on which smaller dunes of similar type and slipface orientation are superimposed. Complex dunes are combinations of two or more dune types. A crescentic dune with a star dune superimposed on its crest is the most common complex dune.