Dune Books in Order

Dune and the Dune saga constitute one of the world's best-selling science fiction series and novels; Dune in particular has received widespread critical acclaim, winning the Nebula Award in 1965 and sharing the Hugo Award in 1966, and is frequently considered one of the best science fiction novels ever, if not the best.

 

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Frank Herbert's Dune Books in Order

  1. Dune - 1965
  2. Dune Messiah - 1969
  3. Children of Dune - 1976.
  4. God Emperor of Dune - 1981
  5. Heretics of Dune - 1984
  6. Chapterhouse: Dune - 1985
  7. The Road to Dune (short story Frank Herbert's Eye short story collection)

Chronological Order of Dune Universe Stories and Books

  Dune: Hunting Harkonnens - 2002
  Dune: The Butlerian Jihad - 2002
  Dune: Whipping Mek - 2003
  Dune: The Machine Crusade - 2003
  Dune: The Faces of a Martyr - 2004
  Dune: The Battle of Corrin - 2004
  Sisterhood of Dune - 2012
  Mentats of Dune    - 2014
  Dune: Red Plague - 2016
  Navigators of Dune - 2016
  Dune: Imperial Court - 2022 (Sands of Dune)
  Dune: The Edge of a Crysknife - 2022 (Sands of Dune)
  Dune: House Atreides - 1999
  Dune: House Harkonnen - 2000
  Dune: House Corrino - 2001
  Paul of Dune (Part II) - 2008
  Dune: Wedding Silk (set between chapters 4 and 6 of Part II of Paul of Dune) - 2011
  Paul of Dune (Parts IV & VI) - 2008
  The Winds of Dune (Part II, excluding the Interlude section) - 2009
  Princess of Dune - 2023
  Dune: The Duke of Caladan - 2020
  Dune: The Lady of Caladan - 2021
  Dune: The Heir of Caladan - 2022
  Dune Book One - 1965
  Dune: Blood of the Sardaukar (set during the end of Book I of Dune) - 2019
  Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas (set during the end of Book I of Dune) - 2001
  Dune (Book II: Muad'Dib) - 1965
  Dune: The Waters of Kanly - 2017
  Dune (Book III: The Prophet) - 1965
  Paul of Dune (Parts I, III, V, & VII) - 2008
  The Winds of Dune (Part IV, excluding the Interlude section) - 2009
  The Road to Dune - 1985
  Dune Messiah - 1969
  The Winds of Dune (Part I, the Interlude section from Part II, Part III, the Interlude section from Part IV, & Part V) - 2009
  Children of Dune - 1976
  God Emperor of Dune - 1981
  Heretics of Dune - 1984
  Chapterhouse: Dune - 1985
  Dune: Sea Child - 2006
  Hunters of Dune - 2006
  Dune: Treasure in the Sand - 2006
  Sandworms of Dune - 2007

Dune Reference Books

  The Illustrated Dune - 1978
  The Dune Encyclopedia - 1984
  The Making of Dune - 1984
  The Dune Storybook  -1984


Herbert's interest in the desert setting of Dune and its challenges is attributed to research he began in 1957 for a never-completed article about a United States Department of Agriculture experiment using poverty grasses to stabilize damaging sand dunes, which could "swallow whole cities, lakes, rivers, highways." Herbert spent the next five years researching, writing, and revising what would eventually become the novel Dune, which was initially serialized in Analog magazine as two shorter works, Dune World (1963) and The Prophet of Dune (1965). The serialized version was expanded and reworked — and rejected by more than twenty publishers — before being published by Chilton Books, a little-known printing house best known for its auto repair manuals, in 1965. Dune won the 1966 Hugo Award and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel.

A sequel, Dune Messiah, followed in 1969. A third novel called Children of Dune was published in 1976, and became the first hardcover best-seller ever in the science fiction field. Herbert wrote God Emperor of Dune in 1981, and 1984's Heretics of Dune was followed in quick succession by Chapterhouse: Dune in 1985. Herbert subsequently died on February 11, 1986.

Prelude to Dune

Over a decade after Herbert's death, his son Brian Herbert enlisted science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson to coauthor a trilogy of Dune prequel novels that would come to be called the Prelude to Dune series. Using some of Frank Herbert's own notes, the duo wrote Dune: House Atreides (1999), Dune: House Harkonnen (2000), and Dune: House Corrino (2001). The series is set in the years immediately prior to the events of Dune.

Legends of Dune

Herbert and Anderson followed with a second prequel trilogy called the Legends of Dune, consisting of Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (2002), Dune: The Machine Crusade (2003), and Dune: The Battle of Corrin (2004). This series is set during the Butlerian Jihad, an element of back-story which Frank Herbert had previously established as occurring 10,000 years before the events chronicled in Dune. Herbert's brief description of mankind's "crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots" was expanded by Brian Herbert and Anderson into a violent and generations-spanning war between humans and sentient machines.

Completion of the original series (Dune 7)

With an outline for the first book of Prelude to Dune series written and a proposal sent to publishers, Brian Herbert had discovered his father's 30-page outline for a sequel to Chapterhouse Dune which the elder Herbert had dubbed Dune 7. After publishing their six prequel novels, Brian Herbert and Anderson released Hunters of Dune (2006) and Sandworms of Dune (2007), which complete the chronological progression of the original series and wrap up storylines that began with Frank Herbert's Heretics of Dune.

Heroes of Dune

In the foreword to Hunters of Dune (2006), Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson wrote that they planned to continue writing Dune novels after completing the Dune 7 project. In 2006 they announced that after Sandworms of Dune they would release an interquel series of novels called Paul of Dune, which was renamed Heroes of Dune in 2007. Heroes of Dune focuses on the time periods between Frank Herbert's original novels; the first book, Paul of Dune, was published on September 16, 2008. The Winds of Dune, called Jessica of Dune before publication, was released on August 4, 2009. The upcoming installments are tentatively called The Throne of Dune (formerly Irulan of Dune) and Leto of Dune (possibly changing to The Golden Path of Dune).

Short stories

In 1985 Frank Herbert wrote an illustrated short work called "The Road to Dune," set sometime between the events of Dune and Dune Messiah. Published in Herbert's short story collection Eye, it takes the form of a guidebook for pilgrims to the fictional planet Arrakis and features images (with descriptions) of some of the devices and characters presented in the novels.

Brian Herbert and Anderson have written several Dune short stories, most of them related to and published around their Dune novels. The stories include: "Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas" (2001), "Dune: Hunting Harkonnens" (2002), "Dune: Whipping Mek" (2003), "Dune: The Faces of a Martyr" (2004), "Dune: Sea Child" (2006), and "Dune: Treasure in the Sand" (2006).

Film and television adaptations

In 1984, Universal Pictures released Dune, director David Lynch's feature film adaptation of the novel. The Sci-Fi Channel premiered a three-part miniseries adaptation called Frank Herbert's Dune on December 3, 2000. Its March 16, 2003 sequel, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, combined both Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Both miniseries were two of the three highest-rated programs ever to be broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel. In 2008, Paramount Pictures announced that they had a new feature film adaptation of Dune in development with Peter Berg set to direct; Berg dropped out of the project in October 2009, and director Pierre Morel was signed in January 2010.

Dune Movies in Order

  Dune 1984 Universal Pictures
  Dune 2021 Warner Bros. Pictures
  Dune: Part Two 2024 Warner Bros. Pictures
Dune: Part Three 2026  Warner Bros. Pictures

Dune Series in Order

  Frank Herbert's Dune - 2000 - Sci Fi Channel
  Frank Herbert's Children of Dune - 2003    - Sci Fi Channel
  Dune: Prophecy - 2024 - HBO

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