"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
Zen philosophy
, and from
Arabic texts
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.