Word: dune
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Which may be part of the reason why so many people devoured Dune when it was published...
...while reading Dune, I realized that it was more than a brilliant revival of the Empire. Herbert had invented a complete universe, as mad and beautiful, inexplicable and frightening as this one. For a few magic moments there my own life seemed like a plausible fantasy, and Dune was real. Herbert's universe was a totality which stretched far beyond the ends of sight, an incredible system which could never be understood or explained. His characters survive by flashes of insight and prophecy, and when their intuition fails, they...
...DUNE MESSIAH, which continues the story of Paul Atreides begun in Dune, will mean nothing to those who have not read its predecessor...