Frank Herbert's classic masterpiecea triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all timenominated as one of America's best-loved novels by Pbs's The Great American Read. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreideswho would become known as Muad'Diband of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.