Summary of Frank Herbert's Dune

Buy now to get the main key ideas from Frank Herbert's Dune In his classic science-fiction novel Dune (1965), Frank Herbert immerses readers into a futuristic fictional world with Arrakis—known as Dune—at the heart of it. Paul Atreides and his family move to Arrakis as the new governing entity over melange, a spice that sustains and prolongs life. The Harkonnens were the ruling family before the Atreides, and they will not sit idly after losing access to such an important resource. Meanwhile, the native people of Arrakis known as the Fremen, with their mystic blue eyes, are more than what they initially appear. Dune is an interplay of politics, religion, technology, and human emotion, explored and tested on the Desert Planet, with Paul Atreides as the long-awaited savior.