<B>"An impressive work of granular Dunesploitation."<BR/> - <I>Empire Magazine</I><BR/><BR/> Some writers build worlds. Others birth entire universes. </B><BR/><BR/> In the decades since its publication, <B>Frank Herbert’s <I>Dune</I></B> has become arguably the best-selling and certainly the best-known science fiction novel ever written. <B>So how did an ex-Navy newspaperman from Washington State come to write such a world-conquering novel?</B> And how was he able to pack it with so many <B>layers of myth and meaning</B>? <BR/><BR/> Herbert’s boundless imagination was sparked by a dizzying array of ideas, from <B>classical history</B> to <B>cutting-edge science</B>, from <B>environmentalism</B> to <B>Zen philosophy</B>, and from <B>Arabic texts</B> to <B>Shakespeare’s tragedies</B>.<BR/><BR/> Beginning on <B>Arrakis </B>and going <B>planet by planet, </B><I>The Worlds of Dune </I>offers a supremely deep dive into Herbert&#3