Dune by Frank Herbert
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family …
This book had an incredible number of ideas, and in fact seems to be two books in one! Unfortunately, the second half of the book (book 2 as far as I'm concerned) ends without resolving anything and raises even more questions and mysteries than the whole rest of the book combined. I have no idea if there is going to be a follow-up book or something, but I'm very confused why this was not only one book but was structured in the way that it was.
That glaring issue aside, the story was very intriguing and complicated and stressful until book 2, at which point it became a faster-paced adventure story. It's a bit long-winded and difficult to get through, but it's a very nice specimen of hard science fiction that I found very interesting.
