A sweeping work of science-fiction that helped define the genre and bring it to the mainstream * The Independent * Adapted from Frank Herbert's 1960s opus, Dune is dense, moody and quite often sublime - the missing link bridging the multiplex and the arthouse * The Guardian - 5* * This new adaptation of the 1965 Frank Herbert novel ... it's science-fiction at its most majestic, unsettling and enveloping * Daily Telegraph * Dune is this generation's Lord of the Rings trilogy ... firmly grounded in Herbert's book. The author's story of feudal nobles waging war over Arrakis, the only source of a powerful drug known as spice, is thick with conflicting ideas that academics are still unpacking today * The Independent * Dune: science fiction's answer to Lord of the Rings * The Guardian * Dune, more than 50 years after it was first published, is a story that speaks to the issues of our time * BBC Science Focus *