num_pages: 890
description: •  PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE COMING NOVEMBER 3rd, 2023Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert • Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Léa Seydoux, with Stellan Skarsgård, with Charlotte Rampling, and Javier BardemFrank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides—who would become known as Muad'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition mankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.
language: English
title: Dune
titlecomplete: Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
characters: Duncan Idaho, Stilgar, Leto Atreides, Shaddam IV, Lady Jessica, Alia Atreides, Paul Atreides, Gurney Halleck, Vladimir Harkonnen
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Adult, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 1261070
places: Harko, Arrakin, Giedi Prime, Caladan, Arrakis, Sietch Tabr
series: Dune, Dune Universe
awards: awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: -157737600000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Foreign Novel
publisher: Turtleback Books