Dune (franchise)

Dune is an American science fiction media franchise that grew out of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel of the same name. The original book won the first Nebula Award for Best Novel and a Hugo Award, and it is often called the best-selling science fiction novel ever published. Herbert wrote five sequels, and after his death in 1986 his son Brian Herbert and the author Kevin J. Anderson added prequel and sequel novels, so that 23 books by the pair had appeared by 2024. The franchise has also spread into film, with a 1984 feature, a 2000 television miniseries, a 2003 miniseries based on the first two sequels and a three-part film series that began in 2021, as well as tabletop games and video games. Its shared setting, called the Dune universe or Duniverse, is a distant-future human civilization that has banned thinking machines and depends on the spice melange from the desert planet Arrakis.