Дюна

Arrakis is a desert world, the sole source of spice. Ships need spice to travel between stars. This makes it a key to power. House Harkonnen has held the rights to mine it for decades. Then Emperor Shaddam IV gives those rights to House Atreides. The two houses are foes. He rules all the space known to humankind.

Leto Atreides is a wise and fair leader. He expects trouble. He knows the Harkonnens will fight to regain their main income. But he does not see the wider plot against his house. Someone outside House Harkonnen has made a plan to destroy it. The trap is close to springing.

This science fiction novel begins Фрэнк Герберт’s saga of the far future. The fight for a scarce resource ties power to wealth and betrayal. Герберт wrote many works. This saga became the work for which he was best known. It reached millions of readers in dozens of languages through translation. Locus, a science fiction magazine, praised this first volume. It named it the greatest science fiction novel of all time.