The Worlds of Dune (eBook)

The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert

Tom Huddleston (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
208 Seiten
Frances Lincoln (Verlag)
978-0-7112-8212-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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 goingplanet by planet,The Worlds of Dune offers a supremely deep dive into Herberts universe detailing along the way the many diverse strands that he wove into his epic creationto offer a visually rich accompaniment tothis sci-fi legend.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.10.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1965 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • Arrakis • Art Book • Artwork • Atreides • author • Book 2 • Book 3 • book gifts • Brian Herbert • Buddhism • caladan trilogy • Chapter • Children of Dune • Deluxe • Denis Villeneuve • Dune • dune film • dune movie • Dune part 2 • EPIC • Fantasy • Film • Frank Herbert • Fremen • Geeks • gifts • Global • God Emperor of Dune • Graphic Novel • Heretics of Dune • Hippy • House • illustrated biography • illustrated Dune • Inspiration • Islam • Messiah • Movie • Mysticism • New Age • Omnibus • Part Two • Prequel • Real Life • Religion • Saga • Sand • Sci-fi • SciFi • Sci fi books for adults • sci fi gifts • series • SF • shacks of provincetown • Sience Fiction • SPICE • timothee chalamet • Trilogy • vol 1 • Volume 1 • what inspired Dune • Worms • Writer • Zen
• ISBN-10: 0-7112-8212-9 / 0711282129
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7112-8212-4 / 9780711282124