FAQ about Dune
FAQ about Dune With the release of Denis Villeneuve's version of Dune (2021), numerous friends have been asking questions of me about the Dune Universe, either because they need clarification based on watching the various movie adaptations, or they are reading the novel for the first time (no small task) and have questions. Here are my best answers, without engaging in any spoilers: So Dune takes place about 8,000 years in the future in the Year 10,191AD? No. Dune takes place in the Year 10,191AG or "After Guild" , i.e. about 10,000 years after the founding of the Spacing Guild , the order whose Guild of Navigators have been mutated over that time through the use of the spice (known as melange in the novels) such that they can safely "fold space" allowing for instantaneously space travel over vast distances. The Spacing Guild was found in 0AG following the Butlerian Jihad (the War against the "Thinking Machines" , i.e. Artificial Intelli...