EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL CAPUCINE DESLOUIS It’s over half a century since Frank Herbert’s SF epic Dune appeared in print and captured the imagination of readers around the world, many of whom will doubtless be looking forward to seeing Denis Villeneuve’s new film adaptation this autumn. FT founding editor Bob Rickard counts himself among the hallowed ranks of Dune fandom, and in this issue he not only previews the new movie but digs deep into the book’s surprising origins. While some of its ecological concerns – the 1960s ‘dunification’ of the Oregon coast was one of the issues that got Herbert thinking about desert planets – have a striking contemporary resonance, it was Herbert’s research into some of the odder corners of the Abrahamic religions that Bob explores in his article (which, as…

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