“I read it the first time when I was 11 or so,” says Kevin Anderson, the bestselling author who, together with Herbert’s son Brian, has continued the Dune series after his father’s death. As one character puts it: “No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.”įrank Herbert. It left behind deep, haunting memories: Paul Atreides chanting the Litany against Fear as his humanity is tested by the Gom Jabbar the first appearance of a sandworm, vast and magnificent the complexity of Paul’s rise to become the Bene Gesserit’s Kwisatz Haderach, the Fremen’s Mahdi (like much of the Fremen’s culture, the word is lifted from the vocabulary of Islam). And it is finally getting the mainstream attention it deserves, thanks to Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptation, out in the UK on 21 October. Of the giant sandworms, hundreds of metres long, which hunt beneath the sands, and of Paul Atreides’ reluctant ascent to messianic status. Published in 1965, it is the story of the desert planet Arrakis, known as Dune of the rare and priceless “spice” that can be found there of the Atreides family, sent to Dune’s dangerous surface to rule of its native Fremen people, who are capable of surviving in this inhospitable environment. I f science fiction has an answer to fantasy’s The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien’s epic saga of the battle to defeat the Dark Lord, Sauron – then Frank Herbert’s Dune has to be a strong contender.
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