The novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert was published for the first time in 1965 combining two parts previously serialized in the magazine “Analog”. It’s the first book in the Dune saga. It won the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel of the year.

Emperor Padishah Shaddam IV has assigned the planet Arrakis to Duke Leto Atreides, the only place in the universe where the spice that prolongs life and increases certain mental powers grows. Arrakis is also known as Dune because it’s a single large desert, and among the creatures that inhabit it, there are giant worms.

Duke Leto Atreides prepares to move his house from the planet Caladan to Arrakis but knows that the desert and his worms are just some of the dangers that await him, his concubine Jessica, and their son Paul. The Atreides will take over from the Harkonnens, with whom there is a centuries-old feud, so the Duke knows that there will be deadly traps waiting for him.