Dune
Frank Herbert
Publisher: Ace Books | Format: Paperback | Page Count: 896
Publisher: Ace | Format: Paperback | Page Count: 704
Rejected by more than twenty publishers and finally issued by a house best known for auto-repair manuals, Dune received essentially no mainstream literary attention on publication. Herbert's ecological-imperial epic became the bestselling science fiction novel of all time, the founding text of climate-conscious fiction, and the rare genre book whose political sophistication looks deeper every decade.