The six novels Frank Herbert wrote himself, Dune in 1965 to Chapterhouse in 1985.
Two soldiers from warring planets raise their daughter on the run; Vaughan and Staples.
Seven pilgrims tell their stories on the way to the Shrike; The Canterbury Tales in space.
Psychohistory predicts the fall of the Galactic Empire and Hari Seldon plans for it; Asimov's trilogy begins.
The Bene Gesserit against the Honored Matres, fifteen centuries after the God Emperor.
Twelve years on, the emperor Paul is trapped by his own jihad and his own prophecy.
Paul's twins, born with the memories of their ancestors, and the choice Leto makes.
Herbert's last book: the Sisterhood turns its own planet into a new Arrakis.
Three and a half thousand years later, Leto II is mostly sandworm and rules a stagnant empire on purpose.
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