Only once in a blue moon does a work of imaginative fiction like Dune come along. Since its first publication more than thirty years ago, Frank Herbert's brilliant novel and its sequels have become classics; Dune is consistently voted the Number One science fiction book of the century by readers all over the world.

The Great Dune Trilogy brings together Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune, an epic, sweeping tale of assassination, survival and betrayal on a bitterly, inhospitable planet.

In the far future, two great dynastic families are locked in a bitter feud. The Duke of Atreides has been maneuvred by his great enemy, Baron Harkonnen, into accepting the job of administering Dune - a vast, almost uninhabitable desert planet where water is a prize possession. But Dune is also a planet of fabulous wealth, for it is home to a drug prized throughout the Galactic Empire.

The Duke, together with his wife and son Paul, know to expect treachery as they take up their new appointment, but it comes from a source both shocking and unexpected. And when Paul succeeds his father, he becomes a catalyst for the natives of Dune. Unbeknowst to the past rulers of the planet, their knowledge of the ecology of this inhospitable desert gives them immense power. All they need is a revolutionary leader to harness this force: and Paul Atreides could be that man...