In total, the Dune series spans about 16,000 years, making it a particularly difficult story to parse if you’re dipping in ...

Children of Dune is perhaps the most divisive book of the series, but it builds Dune up to be the epic series that it is. Paul Atreides plays a nearly non-existent role as the series shifts its ...

The plot of the first book in the Dune series sees Paul Atreides go from the heir apparent of a Great House on a water-borne world, to a shaken refugee and on to a messianic figure on the desert ...