 Dune Encyclopedia
Got this as a present for my Son, who was quite happy with it.
I had expected something a little different (hard cover rather than paperback) and the protective wrap could have been a little sturdier, but the seller's customer service department promptly suggested a fix.
They offered a partial credit which I accepted, but it has not yet posted to my account.
 Totally canon
This, and the six Dune books by Frank Herbert are the true books of the Dune universe. Period.
Ignore the tripe by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson. Disregard their works as fanfiction, and badly written at that. If you want to know more about Dune, this is the book for you.
Super Reader
An overview of the places, people and technology in the Dune universe. This explains a lot of the detail of things that Herbert just mentions in passing, such as the scientists that invented shields, or space travel, or things like that.
It is very useful to gain a better understanding of all those finer points.
A must for Dune fans!
My copy of the Dune Encyclopedia is from 1985 and I remember seeing it on the shelf at the bookstore and purchasing it without even looking at it first!
It gives excellent detail about the technology written about in the series and insight that really adds to the Dune experience.
If you can find a copy of this book it is well worth the read. I am just amazed it is selling for $50.00+ (I paid $10 for mine in 1985) It would be nice to see this come back into print so more people can enjoy an in depth exploration into this wonderful series.
Irony
The first time I ran into the Dune Encyclopedia was purely by accident. I was on Morpheus (a P2P downloading site) and I typed down "DUNE" on the search bar, on the generated list was "The Dune Encyclopedia".
It took days for it to download because only one person was sharing it... meaning that not many people knew it existed and not many people have a digital ebook copy of this book.
Once it was finally on my computer I read as much as I could -- sadly my computer was experiencing many problems and crashed.
Sinse then, I've never been able to find another digital copy. I've resorted to purchasing a $30 one here on good ol' Amazon, however, sinse it's out of print and no publishing house is making any money off of it anymore, I say we as fans should force it back into print as an ebook.
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