Dune: 50th anniversary edition

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To be honest I'm not sure if publishers have classic novels reproofed for anniversary editions and reprints but I kind of feel this print of a novel is by far the worst I've ever seen on both the design and literary front.

Before Star Wars, before A Game of Thrones, Frank Herbert brought to blazing life a feudalistic future of relentless political intrigue and insidious treachery, a grandly operatic vision – half-Wagner, half-spaghetti western – of a hero discovering his destiny.More elaborate and complex than preceding SF, Frank Herbert laid the foundations that made Star Wars and Babylon 5 possible.

To look at the illustration I hoped to created the illusion that you could not focus on one aspect of the image for too long without seeing the other. Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. It's truly one of the greatest series I've read so far and I only hope it will continue to make me feel the way it has so far. Any sort of link or text post is welcome as long as it is about printed / text / static SF material.Sure, I’m capable of thinking about the distant future, but I don’t do it unless a book like Dune makes me, and even then, actually acting on these insights is another matter entirely. The plot of the first third of the book is not so much foreshadowed as explained in advance in intricate detail. I was so enthralled while reading this, I got so much work done I was so into the book I ignored all other surroundings. Folio commissioned Hokyoung Kim for the artwork, while the late author’s wife, Wendy Benchley, provides a fascinating new introduction. Arrakis, or Dune, is a planet of nothingness – its torched wastelands are home to a fierce nomadic people, and under the endless deserts stalk gargantuan sandworms the size of starships.

Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender’s Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune: winner of the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards, and widely considered one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. Dune is epic space opera, a saga of dynastic rivalry rooted in history and ecology, the story of the planet Arrakis 10 000 years from now, and of the conflicts over possession of Melange, a psycho-mutagenic "spice" vital to maintaining the galactic Imperium. I initially chalked this up to maybe getting a copy from a poor batch that made it through the printers quality control but out of curiosity I had a google to see what other people's copies of it looked like, and sure enough every copy even the one in this review which gives it praise as being beautifully designed is misaligned. The main character is Paul Atreides, son of a murdered Duke, the culmination of a twisted breeding programme by the secretive all female Bene Gesserit, and the fulcrum that changes the destiny of the whole universe.My copy is from the third printing of this particular edition, so corrections may have been made in subsequent runs, but still: for shame, Hodder, for shame! In 2017 the matching edition of Dune Messiah arrived, but it looked like the project had stalled because there were no dates for the rest. And if Dune is a prediction, the implications are more terrifying than the giant sandworms roaming the desert. Originally serialised in Analog during the early 1960s, Dune has sold over 10 million copies, becoming the most successful science fiction novel ever and giving rising to five sequels and a prequel, Prelude to Dune: House Atreides.