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''Dune'' is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by Frank Herbert. It tied with Roger Zelazny's ''This Immortal'' for the Hugo Award in 1966, and it won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. It is the first installment of the ''Dune'' saga, and in 2003 was cited as the world's best-selling science fiction novel. Set in the distant future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which noble houses, in control of individual planets, owe allegiance to the Padishah Emperor, ''Dune'' tells the story of young Paul Atreides, whose noble family accepts the stewardship of the desert planet Arrakis. As this planet is the only source of the "spice" melange, the most important and valuable substance in the universe, control of Arrakis is a coveted and dangerous undertaking. The story explores the multi-layered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion, as the forces of the empire confront each other in a struggle for the control of Arrakis and its "spice". Herbert wrote five sequels: ''Dune Messiah'', ''Children of Dune'', ''God Emperor of Dune'', ''Heretics of Dune'', and ''Chapterhouse: Dune''. The first novel also inspired a 1984 film adaptation by David Lynch, the 2000 Sci-Fi Channel miniseries ''Frank Herbert's Dune'' and its 2003 sequel ''Frank Herbert's Children of Dune'' (which combines the events of ''Dune Messiah'' and ''Children of Dune''), computer games, at least two board games, songs, and a series of followups, including prequels and sequels, that were co-written by Kevin J. Anderson and the author's son, Brian Herbert, starting in 1999.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Official ''Dune'' website: Novels )〕 Since 2009, the names of planets from the ''Dune'' novels have been adopted for the real-world nomenclature of plains and other features on Saturn's moon Titan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Titan Planitiae )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Titan Labyrinthi )〕 ==Origins== After his novel ''The Dragon in the Sea'' was published in 1957, Herbert traveled to Florence, Oregon, at the north end of the Oregon Dunes. Here, the United States Department of Agriculture was attempting to use poverty grasses to stabilize the sand dunes. Herbert claimed in a letter to his literary agent, Lurton Blassingame, that the moving dunes could "swallow whole cities, lakes, rivers, highways."〔''The Road to Dune'' (2005), p. 264, letter by Frank Herbert to his agent Lurton Blassingame outlining "They Stopped the Moving Sands."〕 Herbert's article on the dunes, "They Stopped the Moving Sands", was never completedand only published decades later in ''The Road to Dune''but its research sparked Herbert's interest in ecology. Herbert spent the next five years researching, writing, and revising a literary work that was eventually serialized in ''Analog'' magazine from 1963 to 1965 as two shorter works, ''Dune World'' and ''The Prophet of Dune''.〔''The Road to Dune'', p. 272."...Frank Herbert toyed with the story about a desert world full of hazards and riches. He plotted a short adventure novel, ''Spice Planet'', but he set that outline aside when his concept grew into something much more ambitious."〕〔''The Road to Dune'', pp. 263-264.〕 Herbert dedicated his work "to the people whose labors go beyond ideas into the realm of 'real materials'—to the dry-land ecologists, wherever they may be, in whatever time they work, this effort at prediction is dedicated in humility and admiration." The serialized version was expanded, reworked, and submitted to more than twenty publishers, each of whom rejected it. The novel, ''Dune'', was finally accepted and published by Chilton Books, a printing house better known for publishing auto repair manuals. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dune (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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