Frank Herbert wrote plenty, but in the history of world science fiction he remains, above all, as the author of the astonishing epic “Dune.” He managed the impossible—to create a kind of “chronicle of the far future.” And never in the history of world science fiction has there been a picture of the coming future more vivid, more visual, more fashionable, and more original.
The “Dune” cycle has been—and remains—a unique phenomenon: the grandest, the most daring, the most large-scale creation in the entire history of world science fiction. But what ensured its loud fame and unprecedented popularity? Listen—and you’ll find out for yourself.