6/12/2023 0 Comments Folio society duneThis edition also features a wealth of additional information with a map and extensive appendices.ĭune is set in the far future of a distant planet where a the nobel houses of a fuedal, byzantine intersteller society rule individual planets. It is set in Dante typeface along with Helvetica Neue and Black Tulip display. The eleven colour illustrations and black & white tailpieces have been created by award winning artist Sam Weber. He also wrote a biography of Frank Herbert which was shortlisted for a Hugo award in 2004. This illustrious edition features an introduction by noted critic Michael Dirda and an afterword by the authors son Brian Herbert, an established writer who has continued his fathers legacy with additional novels. It seems only fitting that those wonderful people at The Folio Society created an award winning bound and illustrated edition, published to celebrate the 50th anniversary. One of the monuments of modern science fiction Powerful, convincing, and most ingenious. Some critics have gone so far as to call it the best science fiction book ever written. It's sold well in excess of 12 million copies around the world and is one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels. Originally released in 1965 it won the inaugural Nebula award for best novel and tied with Roger Zelazny's This Immortal for the Hugo Award. It's hard to believe that Dune is over 50 years old.
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