- With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert"s magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination.The planet Arrakis—now called Rakis— is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune"s childrenawaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love..."A monumental piece of imaginative architecture... indisputably magical."