See also: Dune (homonymy)
Arrakis, more known under the name of Dune , is the name of a planet in the imaginary universe created by Frank Herbert for the homonymous literary cycle. In a future distance, the man spread himself everywhere in the Galaxy. The novels describe the history of different the Maisons from the Empire and their fights. Between theology, ecology, policy, philosophy and combat, Frank Herbert created a particularly rich and interesting universe. Two film adaptations were strongly inspired some. After the death of Herbert in 1986, his son Brian wrote several series being held in the same universe but preceding the initial cycle.
Universe of Dune
Characters
See also: Characters of Dune
People
See also: People of Dune
Worlds
See also: Worlds of Dune
Organizations
See also: Organizations of Dune
The main organizations of the universe of Dune are:
- Large Houses
- the space Guild
- CHOM
- the Bucket Gesserit
- the Bucket Tleilax
Languages
In agreement with the diversity of the Universe of Dune, of many languages are employed.
The chronology
See also: imperial Calendar (Dune)
Works composing the imaginary world
Novel
The novel started with the novel Dune in 1965, it consists today of a dozen books which were written by several writers: Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.See also: Cycle of Dune
Film
- 1984 : Dune of David Lynch with Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Jürgen Prochnow, Sting
Télésuite
- 2003 : Children of Dune , televisual adaptation of the novels the Messiah of Dune and Children of Dune .
Roleplay
Board games
- Dune (1979): Board game for 2 to 6 players published in France by Plays Descartes
- Dune (1984): for 2 to 4 players published by Parker Brothers having had less success than its predecessor.
Card deck to be collected
Video games
- 1992 : Dune I : (RTS in the form of ventures) by Cryo Interactive
- 1992: Dune II : (RTS) by Westwood Studios and published by Avalon Interactive (Virgin Interactive).
- 1998 : Dune 2000 : (RTS) by Westwood Studios
- 2001: Emperor: the battle for Dune : (RTS) by Westwood Studios
- 2001: Frank Herbert' S Dune : (Adventure)
- Cancelled: Dune Generations : Strategy games and of management cancelled by Cryo Networks
For more information, to see the article published in Tenth Planet n° 45 (February-March 2007).
Music
The cycle of Dune also inspired Iron Maiden (group of Heavy Metal created in December 1975) for the composition of To Tame has Land (appeared on the album Piece off Mind left in 1983). The piece should have been called Dune but Frank Herbert had refused that the group calls the piece thus.
Studies
Study of the universe of fiction
The novels composing the cycle of Dune contain many references to the real-world and purely land considerations. Frank Herbert refers thus to different Civilization S:
- Moslem civilization remains most present in Dune. (See Arab Terms in Dune)
- civilization Judeo-Christian and Moslem woman: the arrival of an announced prophet of long time. To this a critic of the Church (Bene Gesserit) is added, which would worry only about policy and would mislead the people (Missionaria Protectiva).
- Germanic and Chinese civilizations: Muad-Dib, prophet prescient, has only visions of death. The only possible destiny is the destruction then the rebirth (a cycle). All the Cycle of Dune watch birth of a new world under the banner of the Atréides, then its destruction under the diaspora. One can bring this vision closer to cyclic perceptions of time in Chinese and Scandinavian civilizations (Ragnarök).
- ancient Greek civilization: the line of Atrides giving place to Atréides by taking again the myth of Agamèmnon. Moreover the name Leto used for two members of the Maison Atréides (Duke Leto Atréides then Leto Atréides II) can refer in Greek mythology to Léto, the mother of the gods Apollon and Artémis. It also should be announced that this reference to Greek mythology is reinforced in the series preceding by the Genesis of Dune with the Titan cyborg Agamemnon.
Frank Herbert sought to register his universe in the most total fiction, expatriation. Nevertheless, it tightens us poles to bring closer the world to Dune of ours:
- a resource tending to rarefy, to only allow space transport: the Spice. It is extracted from the desert ground of Dune and needs to be refined. On Earth, that would be called oil. This bringing together makes it possible to include/understand the policy in Dune: all is only one business of economic strategy.
- the Brandy allows initiation. It can kill or raise the conscience. This drug being at the origin of a religious rite of return to the ancestors, it can approach the ritual Bwiti of Iboga.
Around the universe of fiction
Inspirations
The ecology, the Africa Sahararienne, the political organization and nun of the the Middle Ages, Lawrence of Arabia.Frank Herbert takes as a starting point the Programmation neuro-linguistics (or PNL) for the techniques of communication and handling of the Bene Gesserit, such as for example the Voice.
Evolution of the universe of Dune
See also: Evolution of the universe of Dune
Important evolutions of the imaginary world.
- 1965 : Beginning of the Cycle of Dune Dune.
- 1992 : Creation of the Video games Dune II which initiates a new kind of plays: the Strategy game in real-time
- 2000: Resumption of the Cycle of Dune by Brian Herbert (Wire of Frank Herbert) and Kevin J. Anderson.
See too
- Page project
- Arab Terms in Dune
External bonds
- http://www.dunenovels.com/
- http://madfredtk.free.fr/dune/Dune_Encyclopedia.pdf: a colossal encyclopedia on the universe of Dune (in English)
- http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00137198: a study on the place of the historians in the universe of Dune
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