Shelfology Book Pairing

by Frank Herbert

• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert • Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Léa Seydoux, with Stellan Skarsgård, with Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides—who would become known as Muad'Dib—and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition mankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.

by Neal Stephenson

When the moon blows up, the Earth's atmosphere starts to go through changes that will eventually render its surface uninhabitable. In preparation, the nations of the Earth send an ark of humans to an international space station. But it too isn't immune to the galactic catastrophe and many people are lost. When stability is reached, only seven humans remain, all of them women. Thirty thousand years later, two peoples exist: those who survived on Earth, living rustic, primitive lives, and those who derived from the Seven Eves of the space station - sophisticated, organised sects looking to colonise Earth.