--- title: "Dune" author: "Frank Herbert" year: 1965 media_type: "book" genre: "Science Fiction" rating: 5 cover: "/covers/dune-placeholder.jpg" status: "Read" date_added: "2025-05-20" tags: ["classic", "epic"] pages: 412 isbn: "978-0441172719" summary: "A classic of science fiction, Dune explores politics, religion, ecology, and human evolution on the desert planet Arrakis." --- **Dune** is a masterpiece of science fiction, exploring themes of *politics*, *religion*, *ecology*, and *human evolution* on the desert planet Arrakis.