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Dune
Published 1965 by Chilton Books · 412 pages
Hugo · 1966
WinnerNebula · 1966
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Dune
Frank Herbert
Finalist
The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream
G. C. Edmondson
Finalist
Rogue Dragon
Avram Davidson
Finalist
A Plague of Demons
Keith Laumer
Finalist
All Flesh is Grass
Clifford D. Simak
Finalist
The Escape Orbit
James White
Finalist
The Genocides
Thomas M. Disch
Finalist
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K. Dick
Finalist
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
Philip K. Dick
Finalist
The Clone
Theodore L. Thomas & Kate Wilhelm
Finalist
Nova Express
William S. Burroughs
Finalist
The Star Fox
Poul Anderson
Frank Herbert on these ballots
4 award entries · 3 books · 2 wins · 1964–1977
Synopsis
Young Paul Atreides is thrust into a deadly struggle for control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the universe's most valuable substance, the spice melange. After his noble family is betrayed and destroyed, Paul joins the planet's native Fremen and rises to become a messianic leader who will reshape the galaxy.
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Details
- Series
- Dune · Book 1
- Author nationality
- United States
- Adaptation
- Dune (film, 1984); Frank Herbert's Dune (TV, 2000)
- ISBN
- 9780801950773