The Dune Encyclopedia
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First British Ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Some moisture damage
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small water damage on top back corner of book block causing some stiffness - text legible, pages intact and block sits flat.
Step into the vast, shifting sands of Arrakis with The Dune Encyclopedia, the definitive companion volume to Frank Herbert's legendary science fiction universe — a world of imperial intrigue, ecological struggle, and messianic prophecy unlike any other in the genre. Compiled with scholarly rigor, this remarkable reference work presents the history, science, politics, religion, and culture of Herbert's universe in exhaustive detail, chronicling everything from the biology of the sandworm Shai-Hulud to the complex genealogies of the Great Houses, the mysteries of the Bene Gesserit, and the spice Melange that makes interstellar travel possible. Dr. Willis E. McNelly, a pioneering academic champion of science fiction as serious literature, assembled contributions from dozens of in-universe scholars, giving The Dune Encyclopedia a unique and immersive mock-academic tone that treats Arrakis as a fully realized historical civilization. The result is a work that rewards both the devoted fan seeking deeper lore and the curious newcomer encountering Herbert's universe for the first time — a testament to the extraordinary world-building achievement that has made Dune one of the most enduring epics in all of speculative fiction. How deep does the desert truly go?
Author: Dr. Willis E. Mcnelly
Format: Paperback
Published: 1984, Corgi Books
Genre: Reference & language
Edition: First British Ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Some moisture damage
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small water damage on top back corner of book block causing some stiffness - text legible, pages intact and block sits flat.
Step into the vast, shifting sands of Arrakis with The Dune Encyclopedia, the definitive companion volume to Frank Herbert's legendary science fiction universe — a world of imperial intrigue, ecological struggle, and messianic prophecy unlike any other in the genre. Compiled with scholarly rigor, this remarkable reference work presents the history, science, politics, religion, and culture of Herbert's universe in exhaustive detail, chronicling everything from the biology of the sandworm Shai-Hulud to the complex genealogies of the Great Houses, the mysteries of the Bene Gesserit, and the spice Melange that makes interstellar travel possible. Dr. Willis E. McNelly, a pioneering academic champion of science fiction as serious literature, assembled contributions from dozens of in-universe scholars, giving The Dune Encyclopedia a unique and immersive mock-academic tone that treats Arrakis as a fully realized historical civilization. The result is a work that rewards both the devoted fan seeking deeper lore and the curious newcomer encountering Herbert's universe for the first time — a testament to the extraordinary world-building achievement that has made Dune one of the most enduring epics in all of speculative fiction. How deep does the desert truly go?