In 1965, after being rejected by more than a dozen publishing houses, a book called -Dune- was brought out by the Chilton Book Company. Its respected author, journalist Frank Herbert, had written -Dune- with nothing more in mind than to entertain his readers with the telling of a particularly complex story, one which had occupied his thoughts for more than six years. No one - not Herbert, not Chilton, not the science fiction community at the time - had any idea that -Dune- would be adopted and read by successive generations with a fervor bordering on cult worship. Or that it would prove to be merely the first of what have now become five international bestsellers about a desert world of the future - the planet Arrakis, called Dune.
