As one of the world’s bestselling science fiction novels, Frank Herbert’s Dune hardly needs an introduction. The novel, at its core, is a coming-of-age story. Shortly after moving to the new planet of Arrakis, Paul Atreides’ father, the planet’s new steward, is murdered by a competing household. Paul flees to the seemingly uninhabitable desert, where he grows up amongst the locals. Frank Herbert grapples with larger ideological issues, including environmentalism, imperialism, religion and gender and strategically crafts the Dune universe through mythical and theological underpinnings. And for those afraid to pick up a science fiction tome from 1965— “fear is the mind-killer” (Herbert).