Dune Encyclopedia News Today

Willis E. McNelly was an English professor at Cal State Fullerton. He authored The Dune Encyclopedia (a companion to Frank Herbert’s Dune novels) and edited several textbooks on science fiction as serious literature. He and his wife were also prominent figures in the Catholic lay action movement in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Science fiction and religion might not seem like the most natural of bedfellows—but religion is usually a prominent theme in most contemporary sci-fi.

Using details on the planet from the sci-fi book Dune, climate scientists, from the University of Bristol and the University of Sheffield, created models to see if it could host human life.

A team of scientists wanted to know if humans could survive on Dune's Arrakis. So they put Arrakis to the test using a climate model.

How Denis Villeneuve finally made his dream of adapting the classic sci-fi novel 'Dune' come true — and saved the movies in the process.

Don’t tell him, but the legendary sci-fi writer came up with a pretty creative way to pull moisture away from you.