Gallery: Book Covers by Ozan Korkut

DUNE: Original Novels:

Book Covers by Ozan Korkut (2015-20)

The six images above are by artist Ozan Korkut, created for Ithaki Publications' Turkish language editions of Frank Herbert's original Dune novels. It's likely that I'll eventually find time to include the final retail versions in each book's respective Book Covers post, but I found some 'clean' ones with no text or logos, which I figured would make an interesting separate post. The images above are just a thumbnail. You can find larger versions of each one below the cut. They're not a high enough resolution for printing, but they're decent enough for a crappy Blogger web page.

Dune: Gollancz UK First Edition HC Recreation

Dune: Gollancz UK First Edition HC Recreation

I love books, but I don't collect or attribute any special value to signed or First Editions. For me, the true value of a book is its content. If the content is good, then the book is good, regardless of its edition. But if I can get it in HC with art that I personally like, then I'm extra happy.

Frank Herbert's first Dune novel is one of my favourite science-fiction books and I enjoy seeing how artists interpret the themes and settings of the story - so much so that I made a post comprised solely of cover art for it. I wanted to include the Victor Gollancz First Edition, UK (1966) because I like the simplicity of it, but I was unable to find a good enough image.

I later figured that the best way to get it featured was to respectfully recreate it, so I did. Sadly, I don't know the original artist's name(s) to credit him/her/them.

Dune 2000 (1999) - Video Game

Dune 2000 (1999)

Genre: Real-time Strategy  |  Players: 1 / Multi (link)

Developers: Westwood Studios / Intelligent Games

NOTE: Review is of the PS1 port, but I'll mention the PC version briefly at the end for obvious reasons.

Dune 2000 is a remake/update of Dune II: Battle for Arrakis (1992), originally developed by Westwood Studios, creators of the well-known Command and Conquer series. DUNE was first, though, so in a way it's Westwood's RTS granddaddy.

Wikipedia states that Dune II was based on David Lynch's filmed version (1984) of Frank Herbert's seminal sci-fi novel Dune (1965), but you can make the transition to the game from the novel without needing to have seen the film, and vice-versa.

Gallery: The Bene Gesserit Sisterhood

The Bene Gesserit Sisterhood

A collection of artworks from various sources. All credit to the original creator(s). None of the following images are mine. I simply found them on the internet, liked them, and linked them. If there's a broken image it's because the original location was changed or deleted.

Bene girl by Tsabo6 DA Page

The Road to DUNE (2005)

The Road to Dune (2005)

Authors: Brian Herbert / Kevin J Anderson / Frank Herbert | Page Count: 381

'These things I tell: the sequential nature of real history cannot be repeated precisely by prescience. We grasp incidents cut out of the chain. That is why I deny my own powers. Eternity moves. It inflicts itself upon me.'

A collection of Dune related texts that, besides its obvious cash-cow nature for two of the named authors, may be of legitimate interest to fans of Frank Herbert because it contains material that he wrote for Dune (1965) and Dune Messiah (1969) that weren't used, for various reasons; e.g., it was deemed unnecessary; cut for length; or got rewritten prior to final publication.

Unfortunately, that material makes up just a small portion of the book's content, with much of the remainder being bloat or newly written extended universe crap. In the order it appears in the book:

Dune: Book Covers Selection

Dune: Book Covers Selection

Various editions of the first Dune novel.