Description
| Product ID: | 9780711282117 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Title: | The Worlds of Dune |
| Subtitle: | The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert |
| Authors: | Author: Tom Huddleston |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Film guides and reviews, Film guides & reviews, Biography: writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The Worlds of Dune presents a deep dive into the many different strands of inspiration, from Zen Buddhism to Indigenous American tribal ritual, that Frank Herbert wove into Dune and its sequels – collectively the world's bestselling science-fiction epic. "An impressive work of granular Dunesploitation." - Empire Magazine Some writers build worlds. Others birth entire universes. In the decades since its publication, Frank Herbert’s Dune has become arguably the best-selling and certainly the best-known science fiction novel ever written. So how did an ex-Navy newspaperman from Washington State come to write such a world-conquering novel? And how was he able to pack it with so many layers of myth and meaning? Herbert’s boundless imagination was sparked by a dizzying array of ideas, from classical history to cutting-edge science, from environmentalism to Zen philosophy, and from Arabic texts to Shakespeare’s tragedies. Beginning on Arrakis and going planet by planet, The Worlds of Dune offers a supremely deep dive into Herbert's universe – detailing along the way the many diverse strands that he wove into his epic creation to offer a visually rich accompaniment to this sci-fi legend. |
| Imprint Name: | Frances Lincoln |
| Publisher Name: | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-10-05 |
