Frank Herbert

Dune

Hodder and Stoughton, 1968    [SF, Eng, A2]

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Dune is the planet of sands, ravaged by storms and filled with gigantic creatures, larger than even the largest spaceships. The people of Dune base all their habits on the shortage of water, and tackle the desert wearing distilling overalls which retain the body’s moisture. But Dune is also the only source of the «spice», the drug which lengthens life and allows forecast of the events to be, and from Dune spread the millennial plots of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, the Space Guild monopoly on interstellar travels, the interests of the Great Merchant Houses which rule trade among planets, and basically all the galactic empire economy.

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