Dune by Frank Herbert
This book is the reason why I became an avid Sci-Fi reader. Novelist Frank Herbert took me to a different world in which I myself couldn’t probably even imagine. He brought me to a place so vivid that it’s as if I was there observing the events that transpired first hand. The story is about a far off future where universes have been conquered and space travel have been made very effective by an element called Spice. Spice is a grain like material that smells like cinnamon and can only be found in the planet of Arrakis, or better known as Dune. Dune is a desert planet, and when I say desert planet, think of the whole earth as like the sahara desert without any oases, except for the frozen polar caps in the northern and southernmost parts of the planet. The most valuable commodity in this planet is water, perhaps the most expensive. Without spice, space travel is no longer instantaneous, tradelines will suffer, the Imperial control over the other galaxies in the known universe will eventually be lost. Without spice, the universe would be dead. Bottomline is, that whoever controls the flow of spice, directly or indirectly controls […]