![]() The novel is set approximately 19,000 years into The Future, in the year 10,191 AG, or "After Guild" (21,267 AD by our calendar) in a galaxy-spanning empire loosely based on the Holy Roman and Ottoman Empires, ruled by feuding nobles, arcane religious sects, and Byzantine corporate monopolies. Dune is a Hugo Award, Nebula Award and Seiun Award winner. Luckily, Chilton was already well-accustomed to producing Doorstoppers. At two hundred and fifteen thousand words, Herbert's manuscript for Dune was three to four times larger than what the average publishing house was used to, as the printing costs for such a work would be enormous. note This was not out of rejection of the book's content, but rather of how much of it there was. It was rejected twenty times by various publishers before finally being published in 1965 by Chilton, a publishing house best known for its DIY auto repair guides. ![]() Dune is the first book in a popular series of Science Fiction novels written by Frank Herbert. ![]()
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