Dune is a science fiction novel set in a far future where noble houses rule planets under a galactic emperor. Young Paul Atreides moves with his family to Arrakis, a harsh desert world that is the only source of the valuable spice melange. The spice makes interstellar travel possible, so whoever controls the planet holds enormous power.
Betrayal and political intrigue force Paul to learn the ways of the desert and its people, the Fremen. The book weaves together ecology, religion, politics and destiny, and it questions the idea of the heroic savior. It remains a landmark of the genre.
Quotes
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
Hope clouds observation.