Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel, 1965 Joint winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel, 1966 They have been waiting for a leader like Paul Atreides, a leader who can harness that force …ĭUNE: one of the most brilliant science fiction novels ever written, as engrossing and heart-rending today as it was when it was first published half a century ago. Then Paul succeeds his father, and he becomes a catalyst for the native people of Dune, whose knowledge of the ecology of the planet gives them vast power. The Duke and his son, Paul, are expecting treachery, and it duly comes – but from a shockingly unexpected place. Although it is almost completely without water, Dune is a planet of fabulous wealth, for it is the only source of a drug prized throughout the Galactic Empire. The Duke of Atreides has been manoeuvred by his arch-enemy, Baron Harkonnen, into administering the desert planet of Dune. ‘It is possible that Dune is even more relevant now than when it was first published’ NEW YORKER ‘I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings’ Arthur C Clarke Seek discipline and find your liberty.‘An astonishing science fiction phenomenon’ WASHINGTON POST
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. How seductive it is to live in peace, she thought. Law and Governance, The Spacing Guild Manual The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. The past-within cannot be relegated to the unconscious. How can you tell what's ruthless unless you've plumbed the depths of both cruelty and kindness? " But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate. "There's a fabric of legends for you! Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they'd bring. "How would you like to live billions upon billions of lives?" Paul asked. What terrible things we do to those we love! Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
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