Lucas Stoffel

Dune is the book that every other science fiction book is either descending from or reacting against. Frank Herbert published it in 1965, and sixty years later it still feels like the most complete world anyone has ever built in a novel. Every detail — the ecology, the religion, the politics, the economics, the technology, the biology — connects to every other detail with a precision that borders on obsessive. This isn't worldbuilding. This is world-engineering.