The most successful science fiction novel of all time - now newly translated thousands of years into the future and a fantastic world: Arrakis, the desert planet. Unique, magnificent - and cruel. And yet humans have managed to adapt to this hostile environment ... Fifty years ago Frank Herbert's novel The Desert Planet was published - a date that marks the beginning of a great success story: The Desert Planet became a worldwide bestseller and was spectacularly filmed by David Lynch. Today, the book is considered a milestone of future literature - a monumental epic that every generation of readers rediscovers for itself.