Dune Storybook

by Joan D. Vinge

The Atreides and Harkonnen families struggle for control of the planet Dune, sole source of the powerful, mind-altering spice, melange

Genres: Science Fiction

60 pages, Hardcover

First published September 7, 1984

About the author

Joan D. Vinge (born Joan Carol Dennison) is an American science fiction author. She is known for such works as her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen and its sequels, her series about the telepath named Cat, and her Heaven's Chronicles books.

Reviews

[rebeca ravara · Rating 3 out of 5]

baseado no romance de frank herbert enquanto igualmente adaptado de um argumento escrito por david lynch, este livrinho serve por uma bela introdução ao mundo do dune dos anos 80. ajuda-me certamente a perceber mais destes filmes pois não tenho a paciência de ler toda a lore. mas pronto. whatever

[Sigbjørn Revheim Svellingen · Rating 2 out of 5]

2,5✨️
Mitt forsøk på å lese alt som er Dune-relatert, har brakt meg mystiske steder.

Dette er en slags barnebok basert på filmen fra 1984. Den inneholder overveldende mengder med faktafeil som gjør den frustrerende å lese.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Dune Storybook . . . or as I like to call it: Gateway to Dune. My sister loved Dune (book and movie, and still does) , but I was too young to read the book or see the movie when it first came out. But my mom got this from the library, and I devoured it. I was obsessed with the pictures, I had a crush on Kyle MacLachlan, I was totally into the culture of Arrakis. I think I was about 9 or 10 at the time. This lead me to seeing the movie when I was 11, and reading the actual book when I was barely 12. Changed my life. Years later my husband found me a copy of this at Powell's in Portland, and I was delighted to find that it had been written by Joan Vinge, whose Cat books (PSION, CATSPAW) had been my favorites as a teen!

[Cathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got a copy of this when I was a kid. And right after I read it, I read it again. And again. This book got me interested with the Dune novels when I was just around 12, and it got me raiding my dad's stash of sci-fi books. I think Dune would be officially my first sci-fi novel ever read, and thats thanks to this storybook.

[Warwick Stubbs · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've always loved the Lynch film despite all it's obvious flaws. But I'm not entirely sure if I saw the film on TV, or simply found this storybook at the age of 14 (1991) and read this instead. I have a vague suspicion that I might have seen it on TV and then found the Storybook at the local library. It is this film tie-in that became a blueprint for all I imagined in the Dune Universe, and this book captures some of the best images from the film, accentuating the brilliantly realised still-suits, the strangeness of the guild navigators, the heat of the desert, and all the imperial pomp and ceremony. Richard Jordan's Duncan Idaho is the one exception for my imagination: For Idaho, I had imagined the curly-haired figure on the cover of the NEL Paperback Edition of Children of Dune painted by Bruce Pennington (even though those two were probably Leto II and Ghanima).

As a consequence, because the images and the streamlined plot of the film was burned into my brain, I didn't bother reading the Dune novel itself, so went straight onto the sequel Dune Messiah. And then, when I had finished Chapterhouse: Dune, that's when I went back and read the original Dune novel! Crazy, I know.

At least, that's how I remember it...

[Ben · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am in the late-year stage of unabashed cramming of some last-minute shortish books and wrapping up a few that I was almost done with in order to still try to “meet” my Reading Challenge that ambitiously increases by 1 each year. No year thus far have I failed this badly, but oh well.

Well, what an odd sub-genre this is: that of the longish picture book synopsis of a just-released film. Like, aside from the mid-quality stills from the movie and ONE cool concept-art image that I don’t remember from the film, this has no merits. It is merely a novelty (now-vintage) memorabile. Either watch the film (which is not essential, though I do have a love for its weird charm), or better yet, read the AMAZING sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert, one of the Top 10 best of all time. But you DON’T need to read this “Storybook” paraphrase of the screenplay.

[Tyler Dowdell · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a barebones adaptation of David Lynch’s Dune and it does a well enough job at summarizing the events of the film. However, I can’t help but wonder who this book was for. It wasn’t meant for fans of Frank Herbert’s novel, and it’s very wordy for a children’s storybook. At the same time not wordy enough to be put out as a “junior novelization” that have become prevalent with big blockbuster movies. . So I’m not sure who the target audience is for this book. But it makes a fun addition to your Dune collection or David Lynch collection.

[Alexandra Maia E Silva · Rating 4 out of 5]

Livro tristemente esgotado
Versão muito reduzida do original
Mas gostei muito e lembrei-me de muitas coisas do filme.
Com uma linguagem própria como acontece com os livros de ficção científica
Muitas vezes as ideias são paralelas, ou com pts de semelhança
Nesta leitura lembrei-me de Isaac Asimov e tb da guerra das estrelas

[Christoph Meyer · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is an artifact from another era; a novelization of movie aimed at 10–12-year-olds. This was published just before VHS tapes became common in most households, so a book like this would have been the only "on demand" version of the story. As someone who has watched Lynch's Dune far too many times, it was amusing to read an adaptation of Lynch's story (not Herbert's Dune).

[Ela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable middleground between rewatching the movie and rereading the original book. Like a TLDR that still manages to suck you in.
For the first time I am motivated to continue the series and pick up Dune Messiah.
Image quality and composition could've been better

[Itsmefarinha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dune Speed run. A fairly entertaining small introduction to the world of Dune.

[Sean Chick · Rating 3 out of 5]

I sometimes read old story book adaptations of films. Its neat seeing camera perspectives not used in the movie as well as cut scenes in the narrative since quite a few storybooks were written with the shooting script. This is also from an age when people did not care about "spoilers" since there was no Internet. The idea of surprising an audience was not a fad until arguably The Sixth Sense. This is no exception, in fact it has lots that did not make it into the 1984 theatrical cut, a sure sign of why that one had its share of narrative issues. That said, even then this was not the best adaptation, in part because the images shown did not match the text. How many times did one need to see the Baron?

Of course that this book exists is one reason Dune flopped in 1984. They thought they had Star Wars, and accordingly pumped out merchandise, from toys to a board game and of course this book. It was not meant to be. Perhaps though one reason Dune became a cult film is that later, unshackled by producers wanting another Star Wars and with the expanded TV cut being pumped out on the air waves (its better but the best is the spicediver edit), Dune could breath a little and find its audience.

So far, The Empire Strikes Back remains the gold standard. This is decent given the material, but the images chosen are perplexing at times.

[Rivka · Rating 5 out of 5]

I admit that Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of my favorite reads. To review or comment on just one book in the genre is simply an incomplete assessment. Frank Herbert has done what so many authors attempt but rarely accomplish. Allow me to elaborate.

We live in a multi faceted, multi dimensional world. Everyone we interact with has their own story, just as rich and full as our own. So often when a tale is told it is presented one dimensionally. One person's story, one story view. But Herbert (and now his son Brian) has taken the time to fully develop not only all of his major characters, many of his minor ones, but also flesh out the political, religous and ecomomic stratums of multiple worlds. All of this is masterfully woven into a chronicle that spans generations. Multiple story lines have been lain into this cloth, each read creating a richer and more colorful tapestry.

If you are looking for an escape, a way to be someplace else entirely different from your own life.. step into Herbert's world. Pick any of the books in this series & be swept away.

[Lafcadio · Rating 2 out of 5]

Straight offa the movie. Really good pictures of Sting, really bad pictures of Patrick Stewart.

[Curtiss · Rating 3 out of 5]

A photo storybook from the Di Laurentis movie Dune.

[Colin Dijkgraaf · Rating 3 out of 5]

This ISBN 0722188447 is actually The Dune Storybook by Joan D. Vinge (Novelisation of the movie Dune)

[Inês Montenegro · Rating 1 out of 5]

Um relato do filme, e nada mais que isso.