https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7njdx/motherboard-does-dune > It would be hard to overstate the influence of Dune in science fiction—and, by extension, our science-fictionalized pop culture in general—over the last half-century or so. Take the broadest outline of the plot: A chosen one, ordained by an inscrutable interstellar religion, uses deadly mind powers to rise up from a barren desert planet to battle the evil galactic emperor. If it sounds familiar, it’s because Star Wars imported all of that from Dune.  > At 20 million copies moved, the book is considered the best-selling science fiction work of all time, even today, over 50 years after its original publication. This is fairly insane, considering that it has never had a single hit cinematic adaptation or popular television tie-in, the fuels that juice our pools of permanently recirculating IP. Outside dedicated fandoms and science fiction reading circles, the Dune “brand” was famously nonexistent. Until now, maybe.