‘Dune’ books in order. The original “Dune” series includes the six books written by Frank Herbert as well as two stories by Herbert’s son and Anderson. Here they are in order: “Dune ...

Frank Herbert wrote six “Dune” books while he was alive, but there are actually 26 “Dune” books. After Herbert died, his son, Brian Herbert, and author Kevin J. Anderson collaborated on an ...

Do not fear reading “Dune.” Fear is the mind-killer. Frank Herbert’s “Dune” has a reputation, even among serious readers, for being dense and difficult to follow. The 1965 science ...

The mystery of why some works continue to speak to us is heightened with a book like “Dune”: Frank Herbert’s desert-planet epic not only remains popular and well-known, but this tale has ...

Frank Herbert’s “Dune” was first published in the mid-1960s, and six decades later, it feels more relevant now than ever before — not so much because it predicted the imminent future, ...

Adapting Frank Herbert's "Dune" for the screen has proven to be somewhat akin to ingesting the potentially fatal sandworm bile known as the Water of Life. Men may not have died in the attempt, but ...

On screen, Frank Herbert’s Baron Harkonnen-sized 1965 novel “Dune” best suits a director operating in a pre-“Star Wars” mode of storytelling. The patient, densely embroidered narrative ...

And though Herbert died the following year, while recovering from cancer surgery, Dune’s universe has been extended by his son Brian and journeyman writer Kevin J. Anderson.