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DUNEPEDIA / CHOOSE YOUR PATH

01Explore the universe

02Read and research

03Experience

AN INDEPENDENT READER’S ATLAS OF FRANK HERBERT’S UNIVERSESources and about the atlas ↗

FRANK HERBERT’S UNIVERSE

The future,
hidden in the sand.

Read a universe. Meet its faces.
Enter its stories. Find your way through its sands.

Choose your own path ↓
ARRAKIS

From within a desert,
looking at all humanity.

01
RESEARCH

Understand the universe.

Encyclopedia, atlas, and sources

 02
ENTER THE STORY

Dune, frame by frame.

Five photo novels, thirty-two scenes

 03
PLAY

Survive the desert.

An Arrakis expedition in your browser

DUNEPEDIA CINEMATHEQUE

01 — PHOTO NOVELS
Paul and Stilgar on the back of an immense sandworm in Arrakis’s sea of sandTHE RHYTHM OF THE SAND 06 SCENES ↗

ANOTHER WAY TO READ

Some moments
remain
in a single frame.

A tear. A final watch. A first step above the desert. Dune’s human stories unfold scene by scene through specially created images.

Open The Rhythm of the Sand ↗Original visual adaptations inspired by the books.
The tear on Paul’s cheek
01 / 08 SCENES

One Drop ↗

The value of a gift in the desert.

A scene from the Blade and String photo novel
02 / 06 SCENES

Blade and String ↗

Two sides of a lesson.

A scene from The Cost of Spice photo novel
03 / 06 SCENES

The Cost of Spice ↗

In a duke’s reckoning, people came first.

A scene from The Last Watch photo novel
04 / 06 SCENES

The Last Watch ↗

Time won behind a door.

02 — PLAY IN YOUR BROWSER

Call of
the Desert.

This time, the footsteps
in the story are yours.

Gather spice. Conserve your water.
Listen to the movement beneath the sand.
Return to the sietch alive.

Begin expedition ↗Single player · Keyboard and touch controls
01 / WALKING

The sand hears you.

Walk quietly. Rhythmic footsteps may draw a sandworm toward you.

02 / RESOURCES

Every drop counts.

Watch your water while gathering spice; your desert expedition cannot last forever.

03 / SHELTER

Reach the rock.

Do not linger on open sand. Use the rocks and return to the sietch with your cargo.

03 — RESEARCH DESK

Behind every story,
a universe.

From a name to a planet, from an idea to a book.
Follow the sources deeper.

ENCYCLOPEDIA

Deeper than
what meets the eye.

209 WIKI ENTRIES / 4 SOURCE TRADITIONS

Enter the universe ↗ATLAS OF WORLDS

The desert is
only the beginning.

Open the maps ↗PASSAGE ROOM

In the author’s
own words.

Original English passages, commentary, and source notes.

Start reading ↗

FACES OF THE IMPERIUM

People, not forces,
change history.

The life behind a gaze.
Ten characters, ten different worlds.

Meet the characters ↗
Scroll to explore the portraits

THE ORIGINAL SIX BOOKS

Six novels.
Doors opening into infinity.

Explore Frank Herbert’s series in publication order.
Each book redraws the boundaries of the universe you know.

1965

Dune

This atlas reveals the events and endings of all six books. Select books to explore summaries and reading links.

RITUALS AND SYMBOLSFear passes.
Words remain.Explore the Litany Against Fear and Dune’s symbols ↗

FROM WITHIN THE BOOKS

One sentence
changes the whole world.

Melange is a many-handed monster. The spice gives with one hand and takes with all of its others.

House Corrino · Original English passage

Read the passage and commentary ↗

FOLLOWING AN IDEA

Questions without
a single answer.

ECOLOGY

Changing the desert,
changing humanity.

Reading dossier ↗POWER

Living in
a savior’s shadow.

Reading dossier ↗MEMORY

How much of the past
belongs to you?

Reading dossier ↗
1965THE BEGINNING OF A UNIVERSE

BEHIND THE WORDS

Frank Herbert

Dune is as much a mirror humanity holds up to its own world as a story of power set in the distant future.

Ecology, religion, politics, and humanity’s need for saviors. Herbert’s six novels leave ever-growing questions rather than easy answers.

Return to the first book ↗
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