Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty ( retitled Dune II: Battle for Arrakis in Europe and for the Mega Drive / Genesis port ) is a Dune computer game released in 1992 by Westwood Studios.

* In the 1976 science fiction novel Children of Dune, written by Frank Herbert, Agamemnon is mentioned as an ancestor of the Atreides family.

* Aba ( Dune ), a type of robe in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert

Children of Dune is a 1976 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, third in a series of six novels set in his Dune universe.

The novels Dune Messiah and Children of Dune were adapted into a well-received television miniseries entitled Frank Herbert's Children of Dune by the Sci-Fi Channel in 2003.

His vision of peace is corrupted by dogmatic religious bureaucrats, and his once-noble desert tribes, the Fremen, grow fat and wealthy on the spoils of war and the de-desertification of Dune.

Chapterhouse: Dune is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, last in his series of six Dune novels.

Two decades later, Herbert's son Brian Herbert, along with Kevin J. Anderson, published two sequels – Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ) – based on notes left behind by Frank Herbert for what he referred to as Dune 7, his own planned seventh novel in the Dune series.

The Bene Gesserit are also terraforming the planet Chapterhouse to accommodate the all-important sandworms, whose native planet Dune had been destroyed by the Matres.

Two decades after Frank Herbert's death, his son Brian Herbert, along with Kevin J. Anderson, published two sequels – Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 ) – based on notes left behind by Frank Herbert for what he referred to as Dune 7, his own planned seventh novel in the Dune series.

Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune ( 1984 ), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), which was critically acclaimed.

The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

He is primarily featured in the 1965 novel Dune and is also a prominent character in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999-2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

In the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Anderson, it is established that Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is the son and heir of Dmitri Harkonnen and his wife Victoria.

* Frank Herbert, critically acclaimed, science fiction author of the best-selling science fiction novel of all time: Dune

Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than the far-future settings or galactic vistas found in novels such as Isaac Asimov's Foundation or Frank Herbert's Dune.

Herbert chose in the books that followed to undermine Paul ’ s triumph with a string of failures and philosophical paradoxes ; Dune was a heroic melody, and Dune Messiah was its inversion.

* Dune audiobooks ~ collection of audiobooks on the Dune series

* Princess Irulan photo gallery ~ SciFi. com / Dune

* Princess Irulan photo gallery ~ SciFi. com / Children of Dune

* The Throne of Dune ( TBD ) ( Originally titled Irulan of Dune )

Originally released for DOS in 1992, Dune II was one of the first PC games to support the recently introduced General MIDI standard.

In Dune: House Corrino ( published in 2001 and the third novel in the Prelude to Dune prequel series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson ), Piter De Vries discovers the Harkonnen heritage of Lady Jessica and her newborn son Paul, and attempts to kidnap and ransom the infant.

In an unused passage by Frank Herbert from Dune Messiah published in The Road to Dune ( 2005 ), Edric is described as surviving without spice gas once a hole is opened in his tank, though his prescient abilities are practically useless in this state.

Although the ZX Spectrum game Stonkers was published a year earlier, The Ancient Art of War is generally recognized as one of the first real-time strategy or real-time tactics games, a genre which become hugely popular a decade later with Dune II and Warcraft.

Beginning in 1999, his son Brian Herbert and science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson have published a number of prequel novels, as well as two which complete the original Dune series — Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ) and Sandworms of Dune ( 2007 )— partially based on Frank Herbert's notes discovered a decade after his death.

A third novel called Children of Dune was published in 1976, and was later nominated for a Hugo Award.

Heroes of Dune focuses on the time periods between Frank Herbert's original novels ; the first book, Paul of Dune, was published on September 16, 2008.

Brian Herbert and Anderson have written several Dune short stories, most of them related to and published around their novels.

On December 1, 1984, Marvel Comics and Berkley published Dune: The Official Comic Book ( ISBN 0-425-07623-7 ), a comic adaptation of David Lynch's film Dune.

Developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Virgin Interactive, is the first of the Dune computer games.

During March 2012, a Statutory Demand notice was published in the Southport Champion local newspaper suggesting Dune FM Limited owes a sigificant sum to Proud FM Limited .. On Monday 9th July 2012 Dune FM Ltd was wound up in the Liverpool District Registry

In a July 15, 2010 blog post, Anderson announced a future novel called The Sisterhood of Dune, due out in 2012 and the first in a trilogy set in the time period closely following that of the Legends of Dune series.

In July 2002, not long after Frank Herbert's Dune flopped, Cryo's situation was no longer sustainable, and the company was declared bankrupt.

The first five chapters of the novel were available prior to the novel's publication via free download from the official Dune website, released monthly from March until July in 2006.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, von Sydow appeared in such films as Flash Gordon ( 1980 ), Strange Brew ( 1983 ), David Lynch's Dune ( 1984 ), and Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ).

After a botched attempt at filming Frank Herbert's novel Dune, Jodorowsky produced three more films, the family film Tusk ( 1980 ), the surrealist horror Santa Sangre ( 1989 ) and the failed blockbuster The Rainbow Thief ( 1990 ).

It is for his more infamous productions that De Laurentiis's name has become known — the legendary King Kong ( 1976 ) remake, which was a commercial hit, Lipstick, the killer whale film Orca ( 1977 ); The White Buffalo ( 1977 ); the disaster movie Hurricane ( 1979 ); the remake of Flash Gordon ( 1980 ); Halloween II ( the 1981 sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 classic horror film ); David Lynch's Dune ( 1984 ); and King Kong Lives ( 1986 ).

His most notable roles include Hamidou, the vicious prison warden in Midnight Express ( 1978 ), Bluto in Robert Altman's Popeye ( 1980 ), Gideon in the ABC miniseries Masada and the Beast Rabban in David Lynch's Dune ( 1984 ).

" Doc " Smith's Lensman, Larry Niven's Known Space, Frank Herbert's " Dune ", Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980, etc.

In the 1980s, Jordan performed in films including Raise the Titanic ( 1980 ), Flash of Green ( 1984 ), Dune ( 1984 ), The Mean Season ( 1985 ) and The Secret of My Success ( 1987 ).