The winner of both the Hugo and Nebula award, this novel follows the journey of a young Paul Atreides and his journey on the desert planet of Arrakis. Arrakis is the most important planet in the universe as it is the only source of Melange, the spice that is required for space travel and extended life.

The story unfolds with a conspiracy between House Harkonnen and House Corrino to destroy House Atreides. The Harkonnens relinquish their assignment on Arrakis with the intention of taking it back with the aid of the Emperor's Sardaukar.

Through the aid of a spy within the Atreides house, Paul Atreides and his mother, Lady Jessica, are cast out into the deep desert to die. With the aid of the Fremen, Paul sets a plan into motion to reclaim his title. Along the way, Paul discovers that he may be the Kwisatz Haderach and sets out to discover his true potential.

Dune Messiah is the sequel to Dune and more importantly a bridge to the next book. Paul's death is conspired between several characters including the princess Irulan, his wife, the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohaim, Scytale, a Tleilaxu Face Dancer and Edric, a Guild Steersman.

As part of their plot, Duncan Idaho is revived by the Tleilaxu as a ghola named Hayt to infiltrate Paul's confidence and set about his demise. Paul must decide who his allies are in this plot thick novel and also concern himself for the future of his children that Chani carries.

In the third novel of this epic a great change is taking place. The desert planet of Arrakis is becoming lush and fertile.

The children of Paul Atreides are growing up under the supervision of their aunt Alia and her husband Duncan. As Alia ages she falls further into abomination and Duncan fights to save her.

Meanwhile, a familiar figure known as the Preacher is seen in Arakeen. Is he the long thought dead Maud'dib? Paul's children Leto II and Ghanima set out to find the truth.

The new life emerging on Arakis is seen as a threat by the old Fremen, and the fate of the entire planet is in danger as Alia deals with her personal demons and the ultimate fate of her brother.

More than a thousand years after the events of Children of Dune, the desert planet has undergone startling changes. Now known as Rakis, the planet has become green with life with only a small area of desert left.

Within that desert lives the God Emperor, Leto Atreides II, now almost completely transformed into a sandworm. He has taken over the work of the Bene Gesserit, manipulating bloodlines to lead humanity down his Golden Path.

The focus of the Dune chronicles are clearly set as Duncan Idaho is destined to be reborn again and again to serve the God Emperor. The love of a woman and the heart of a warrior may lead to the end of Atreides rule over the universe.

Heretics of Dune follows the story of the reborn Duncan Idaho and introduces Sheeana and Miles Teg. The world of Rakis has again become a baren world.

The rogue Bene Gesserit have evolved into the Honored Matres who have sexual abilities that unleash great powers. The Bene Gesserit still exist and have their own plan to create a new supreme being with the aid of a Tleiaxu axoltl tank.

It is a race to create the next Kwisatz Haderach and in the end, the final fate of Rakis is decided.

Chapterhouse: Dune is the final book in this epic story. Rakis, the desert planet has been destroyed and Duncan Idaho is now living in a Bene Gesserit no-ship to keep his whereabouts secret. The Bene Gesserit have a plan to regain their place in the universe from the Honored Matres.

The Bene Gesserit capture a young Honored Matre and train her in the ways of the Bene Gesserit and learn the ways of the Honored Matres. The fate of the Bene Gesserits depend on what they can learn from the Honored Matres. And if Duncan Idaho can become a supreme being, what are the expectations for a reborn Miles Teg?

An aging tyrant sits on the Golden Lion Throne and rules all of the known universe, while his son grows dangerously impatient for the crown. A quasi-religious order of black-robed women move their secret breeding program one momentous step closer to creating a god-child they call the Kwisatz Haderach. And a minor family among the nobility, House Atreides, chooses a course of honor that will bring it to destruction at the hands of its mortal enemy, House Harkonnen -- or take it to new heights of power.

Here is the rich and complex world that Frank Herbert created in his classic series, in the time leading up to the momentous events of Dune. As Emperor Elrood's son Shaddam plots a subtle regicide, young Leto Atreides leaves his lush, water-rich planet for a year's education on the mechanized world of Ix; a planetologist named Pardot Kynes is dispatched by the Emperor to the desert planet Arrakis, or Dune, to discover the secrets of the addictive spice known as melange; and the eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho is hunted by his cruel masters in a terrifying game from which he vows to escape and vengeance. But none can envision the fate in store for them: one that will make them renegades -- and shapers of history.

Covering the decade when Shaddam wins his throne, the teenager Leto Atreides becomes unexpectedly the ruler of House Atreides, and Pardot Kynes uncovers one of the planet Dune's greatest secrets, House Atreides captures the grandeur and drama of Frank Herbert's epic. And while this new novel solves some of Dune's most baffling mysteries, it presents new puzzles spring from the sands where one day Paul Muad'Dib Atreides will walk. But now, in these years before Paul's birth, an unforgettable new epic begins….

At last Shaddam sits on the Golden Lion Throne, his precarious position as ruler of the Known Universe dependent on producing a male heir. But his leadership is further threatened by the ambitious Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, whose insatiable thirst for dominance leads him to plot against some of the most powerful forces in the Imperium, hoping to elevate his own ruthless House to unprcedented heights of power. His primary targets: House Atreiedes and the mysterious Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The Sisterhood are unaware of this threat as they prepare to culminate the work of centuries in the creation of a god-child who will sweep away emperors, houses, and history itself in a terrifying new order of religious tyranny.

The desert world Dune, the machine world Ix, and countless other conquered planets groan under the numbing slavery of cruel new masters determined to exploit their resources -- most notably the addictive spice melange found only on Dune. But small bands of renegades begin to fight back, lighting the spark of freedom against overwhelming odds. New, unexpected heroes arise: young and resourceful Liet-Kynes on Dune, wily and patient C'tair on Ix, and the unyielding Gurney Halleck on Giedi Prime, driven to vengeance against his Harkonnen overlords.

For Leto Atreides, grown complacent and comfortable as ruler of his House, it is a time of momentous choice: between love and honor, friendship and duty, safety and destiny. Leto has finally produced an heir to House Atreides, Victor, and will make whatever choices necessary to protect the young boy and ensure his legacy as Duke. Ultimately, however, for House Atreides there is just one choice -- strive for greatness or be crushed.

Fearful of losing his precarious hold on the Golden Lion Throne, Shaddam IV, Emperor of a Million Worlds, has devised a radical scheme to develop an alternative to melange, the addictive spice that binds the Imperium together and that can be found only on the desert world of Dune. In subterranean labs on the machine planet Ix, cruel Tleilaxu overlords use slaves and prisoners as part of a horrific plan to manufacture a synthetic form of melange known as amal. If amal can supplant the spice from Dune, it will give Shaddam what he seeks: absolute power.

But Duke Leto Atreides, grief-stricken yet unbowed by the tragic death of his son Victor, determined to restore the honor and prestige of his House has his own plans for Ix. He will free the Ixians from their oppressive conquerors and restore his friend Prince Rhombur, injured scion of the disgraced House Vernius, to his rightful places as Ixian ruler. It is a bold and risky venture, for House Atreides has limited military resources and many ruthless enemies, including the sadistic Baron Harkonnen, despotic master of Dune.

Meanwhile, Duke Leto's consort, the beautiful Lady Jessica, obeying the orders of her superiors in the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, has conceived a child that the Sisterhood intends to be the penultimate step in the creation of an all-powerful being. Yet what the Sisterhood doesn't know is that the child Jessica is carrying is not the girl they are expecting, but a boy. Jessica's act of disobedience is an act of love -- her attempt to provide her Duke with a male heir to House Atreides -- but an act that, when discovered, could kill both mother and baby.

Like the Bene Gesserit, Shaddam Corrino is also concerned with making a plan for the future -- securing his legacy. Blinded by his need for power, the Emperor will launch a plot against Dune, the only natural source of true spice. If he succeeds, his madness will result in a cataclysmic tragedy not even he foresees: the end of space travel, the Imperium, and civilization itself. With Duke Leto and other renegades and revolutionaries fighting to stem the tide of darkness that threatens to enjulf their universe, the stage is set for a showdown unlike any seen before.

Throughout the Dune novels, Frank Herbert frequently referred to the long-ago war in which the humans wrested their freedom from "thinking machines." Now, in Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring to life the story of that war, a tale previously seen only in tantalizing hints and clues. Finally, we see how Serena Butler's passionate grief ignites the war that will liberate humans from their machine masters. We learn the circumstances of the betrayal that made mortal enemies of House Atreides and House Harkonnen; and we experience the Battle of Corrin that created a galactic empire lasting until the reign of Emperor Shaddam IV.

Herein are the foundations of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the Suk Doctors, the Order of Mentats, and the mysteriously altered Navigators of the Spacing Guild. Here is the amazing tale of the Zensunni Wanderers, who escape bondage to flee to the desert world where they will declare themselves the Free Men of Dune. And here is the backward, nearly forgotten planet of Arrakis, where traders have discovered the remarkable properties of the spice melange....

Ten thousand years before the events of Dune, humans have managed to battle the remorseless Machines to a standstill... but victory may be short-lived. Yet amid shortsighted squabbling between nobles, new leaders have begun to emerge. Among them are Xavier Harkonnen, military leader of the Planet of Salusa Secundus; Xavier's fiancée, Serena Butler, an activist who will become the unwilling leader of millions; and Tio Holtzman, the scientist struggling to devise a weapon that will help the human cause.

Against the brute efficiency of their adversaries, these leaders and the human race have only imagination, compassion, and the capacity for love. It will have to be enough.

The breathtaking vision and incomparable story telling of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, a prequel to Frank Herbert's classic Dune, propelled it into the ranks of speculative fiction's classics in its own right. Now, with all the color, scope, and fascination of the prior novel, comes Dune: The Machine Crusade.

More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in The Butlerian Jihad. The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years, but the forces led by Serena Butler and Iblis Ginjo have made only slight gains; the human worlds grow weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat.

The fearsome cymeks, led by Agamemnon, hatch new plots to regain their lost power from Omnius…as their numbers dwindle and time begins to run out. The fighters of Ginaz, led by Jool Noret, forge themselves into an elite warrior class, a weapon against the machine-dominated worlds. Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva are on the verge of the most important discovery in human history -- a way to "fold" space and travel instantaneously to any place in the galaxy.

And on the faraway, nearly worthless planet of Arrakis, Selim Wormrider and his band of outlaws take the first steps to making themselves the feared fighters who will change the course of history: the Fremen.

Here is the unrivaled imaginative power that has put Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson on bestseller lists everywhere and earned them the high regard of readers around the globe. The fantastic saga of Dune continues…in Dune: The Machine Crusade.

This is the 1984 David Lynch version of Dune.

This is the 1984 David Lynch version of Dune.

This is the 2001 Sci-Fi Channel version of Dune.

The Extended version is the most complete compiling of the Dune Movie. There are rumors of a four hour version or six or ten but they have never been verified by anyone. Either way those long versions would be put together using cuts from the film that David Lynch would not use.

Though it would be interesting to see, it may not be enjoyable. Even the released extended version is a bit rough. The actors don't have the blue within blue eyes in the new scenes.

The name Alan Smithee is a fabricated name. The Director's Guild assigns this name to a film that was modified from the directors released version, without the directors consent. David Lynch did not want this version released so his name was dropped. That's why when you see extended it says an Alan Smithee film and directed by Alan Smithee.

The Sci-Fi Mini-series chronicling both Dune Messiah and Children of Dune.

Dune: Original Soundtrack Recording