Five notes, a mountain of mashed potato, and first contact.
The pursuers are finally named and the cycle is closed, on the outline Brian Herbert found in his father's safe deposit boxes.
Twenty-four years into the jihad: Vorian Atreides against the Titan Agamemnon, and Norma Cenva working out how to fold space.
A city whose happiness depends on one child kept in a cellar, and the few citizens who leave rather than accept the terms.
Thirty-five years before Dune: Leto is sent to Ix as a boy, Pardot Kynes reaches Arrakis, and Shaddam plots his own father's death.
Alternates between Paul's twelve-year jihad after Dune, fought across the galaxy in his name, and his boyhood on Caladan.
Ten thousand years earlier: humanity revolts against the thinking machines, and Serena Butler gives the war its name.
The jihad ends with atomics over Corrin, and the Corrino empire, the Spacing Guild and the Great Convention come out of the wreckage.
Gurney Halleck in the Harkonnen slave pits, Duncan Idaho training on Ginaz, and Jessica sent from the Sisterhood to Caladan.
After Paul walks into the desert: Jessica and Alia hold Arrakis together while Bronso of Ix writes pamphlets against the Atreides myth.
The Emperor's synthetic-spice project on Ix collapses while Leto goes to war over it; the trilogy ends with the birth of Paul.
Jessica is recalled to the Sisterhood on Wallach IX, and Leto and Paul are left with the rebellion and a narcotic grown on Caladan.
Leto Atreides at home a year before Arrakis, facing a rebel movement called the Noble Commonwealth.
The last weeks before Dune opens: the Emperor hands Arrakis to House Atreides and Paul turns fifteen.
Picks up the cliffhanger Frank Herbert left in 1985: the no-ship runs from an enemy the Bene Gesserit cannot name, with a hold full of gholas.
A joint Soviet-American crew flies back to Jupiter to board the abandoned Discovery and find out what HAL was hiding.
Urasawa remakes an Astro Boy story as a murder mystery about robots and war.
Childhood friends and a cult leader who copies their game; Urasawa's conspiracy epic.
Heywood Floyd lands on Halley's Comet, then a hijacking puts him down on Europa, the one world humanity was warned to stay away from.
John Difool, a class-R detective, and a crystal that can save the universe; Moebius and Jodorowsky.
Two soldiers from warring planets raise their daughter on the run; Vaughan and Staples.
Every male mammal dies except Yorick and his monkey; sixty issues of what comes next.
Frank Poole is recovered a thousand years after HAL threw him into space, and wakes in a ring city built around the Earth.
Spider Jerusalem, a Hunter Thompson of the future, against the City; Warren Ellis.
Stalkers loot an alien Zone for artefacts; the Strugatskys' novel behind Tarkovsky's film.
Charlie Gordon's IQ goes from 68 to 185 and back, in his own progress reports.
Earth colonises Mars in linked stories; Bradbury's melancholy frontier.
A fifty-kilometre cylinder enters the solar system and a crew goes inside; Clarke's purest wonder.
Seven pilgrims tell their stories on the way to the Shrike; The Canterbury Tales in space.
Two constructor robots build machines that write poetry and simulate kingdoms; Lem's comic fables.
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