Instead, Paul began "registering every available aspect of the thing that lifted from the sand there seeking him. Its mouth was some eighty meters in diameter ... crystal teeth with the curved shape of crysknives glinting around the rim ... the bellows breath of cinnamon, subtle aldehydes ... acids...."
For imagining a desert planet, where men with eyes of blue- within-blue drink their own recycled fluids and ride giant worms across cinnamon-scented sands, for envisioning a universe in which messiahs can see the varied paths of possible futures, and make their own predictions come true, Frank Herbert is himself remembered as a hero of sorts. Dune, which is considered a science fiction masterpiece and has sold over twelve million copies since it was first published in 1965, has greatly influenced the literary realm in which Herbert worked.
Dune, in the words of Bob Collins in Fantasy Review, "may indeed be one of the very best science fiction novels ever produced." The novel not only brought Herbert the status of famous authors C. S. Lewis and Isaac Asimov, it directed the future of science fiction. "Together with such books as [Robert] Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) and [J.
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