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  • About the site:

    •  It all started years ago... I really liked the old Dune Books site. Then the site went offline and I thought years about redoing it myself.
    Btw, I'm the one who sent them the Brazilian covers. :)  Yes, there is ISFDB but they lack lots of editions, so the idea was still up.

    Then some months ago I wrote a message in r/Dune, linking the old Dune Books site and mentioning my thought of trying to do something similar...
    Well, pandemic and lots of free time... Always liked seeing what different countries or publishers did with Dune... Well, frick it! It would be fun to try!
    Today is 11/dec/2022 (I know, but I prefer the DMY format) and I finally, slowly, finished it.
    Actually, today is 13/dec, because just before uploading I discovered a new Norwegian trilogy, a 2006 Spanish edition I haven't noticed, the new Catalan book 2, and (finally) a new Latvian cover. Good for then. The last one was weird. And decided to throw away five pictures from the Brazilian 80's set. No good one online, so just photographed and edited them myself.
    Back about the site...

    Made it the simplest way possible: covers, country, publisher and year (of the first book of the set, not individually).

    I set myself 2 goals when I started:
    - all the covers from the old Arrakis site.
    - all the meaningfully (*) covers from ISFDB.
    - bonus goal: all the covers from this r/Dune topic (already knew most of then when found it, but it was a nice checklist).
    - and then just to be sure: all the meaningfully (*) covers from Goodreads (almost missed two Spanish covers if not for looking there).
    Also, tried for good quality covers, but sometimes I got lazy or could really not find anything better.

    (*) If there were 4 variant covers with the same art, just changing a detail or new company logo (France...) I used the one I thought prettiest (or that I could find a better pic) and moved on, although sometimes I didn't (France again, and Turkey...), or I put it smaller by the side.

    Also, they are in the order I looked for, edited or, even, discovered them. Sometimes I just put similar colored ones near each other. And the hateful 'movie poster book covers' by the end. And, although I do think the 'random' organization is funnier to look, I ended doing a 2nd page, sorted by country and year not very scientifically - that means: if a set has books from the 80's but started in the 70's and all the books follows the same art style, then all of them will be listed in the 70's. Example: NEL 1978. Inverse example: what I called the Gollancz 1966 set didn't survive the process (but stayed near each other anyway). Btw, I didn't sort by the publication months inside the years, that would be too much and sometimes I don't even know if the years are really those. But it's enough to have an idea of the art style around that time.

    Very Important: this was not some kind of academic work or investigation, it was just an old nerd with Google wanting to look (all) Dune cover arts. And then sharing it.
    And, obviously, no copyright infringement intended. Just a site to admire covers.
    Btw, transliterations of publishers' names by Google Translate or translation when it was already in use by themselves - and original name on the side or at the ** tips when the space was tight.

    There are some covers not from the Frank's six books because I could not keep Encyclopedia away or not link Bruce Pennington even if it was in National Lampoon's parody. Two game covers because I thought the Avalon Hill one was a book when I started - and it would be a sin not to have it too, it has one of the best sandworms. And decided to have Dune II because of a Turkey cover, so it made sense to have the original. Then I put Eye because there is a kind of a Dune short story there from FH. The Maker book because I like the cover. And two others (one is not even a book) just because I thought them funny. These last 3 and the games are not in the sorted page.
    Also, no BH/KJA books even when the art was good, because that would double the effort - and because they would be from BH/KJA books. And no Audio books too.

    Sometimes I decided to put the whole front and back cover or art but I wasn't really planning on doing it when I started, so that explains the easily fixable omissions, it was just a 'you know what... I already found the picture...' very later in the process. And sometimes I stumbled with the book without its dust jacket, but rarely posted it: too much work for some bland cover most of the cases.

    Unfortunately, I still think there are covers I didn't find just because I couldn't use a foreign language properly and/or they're very hidden inside some forum or wiki.
    Example: found the polish Enki Bilal covers (or dust jackets?) almost by accident. The same for the Greek Space ones. Or cases where I found a pic but had no information. There's a Russian cover from a real press in the style of a real series, that I still don't know if that's a real edition - it is a mess of a new cover art with old ones plus a painting from a Canadian artist. And a light blue (or white) probably Czech cover with no data that I found among other Czech covers in Sbazar.

    And that's it!

    Feel free to save, upgrade or reupload anywhere. Use the pics in Pinterest. Anything you want. I made for fun. I had my fun (*). I'm good.
    Also, I don't know if will keep updating it. And, although I made some photoshopping here and there (sometimes a lot), I took all pictures from the Internet without asking permission from anyone - so it's only fair that they're fully open to be backstolen. :)
    (*) I'm just a bit traumatized and don't want to manually "retanglefy" angled pictures ever again.

    And, here's my collection so far.
    Just because I wanted to post it (and finally had all of them together). :D


    Special thanks to Dune Books (Arrakis.co.uk).
    Also to ISFDB, r/Dune, Encyklopedie Dune, Лаборатория Фантастики, Goodreads, NooSFere,
    Tercera Fundacion, Encyklopedia Fantastyki, Fantascienza.com, Luminist Archives,
    and everyone who posts good (and not angled) quality pictures anywhere.


  • Random picks:

    • Favorite cover: Lithuania 2021. (me and half the internet) However, didn't like that much their Messiah.
    Favorite sets: 80's Brazil (although Heretics is just some public domain space pictures), Steampunk Romania and Dark Blue Berkley. And 2006 Anubis for some reason - maybe the colors. Hodder 2015 too. Ace from 2019 is halfway there to be an excellent set, even though I don't like covers with people or faces (hence my complaint about Lithuania's Messiah).
    And the new Portuguese one is looking good so far - I think the country will redeem itself from the Palpatine and the caterpillar covers (I liked the colors and style in that duo... but I keep imagining the worm cocooning and getting wings).
    Favorite non-set book 1: it's bad, but 1993 Severo-Zapad (and I have it). Also Partus. Really curious if that will became a set and the next covers.
    Worst cover: again Russia, Dias 1992 looks like a (bad) cover from a bad Atari game.
    Worst covers overall: Italy! I like the middle art in this one, but they're mostly awful. There's a whole box where they just gave up and had no art at all.
    Also bad: I know ebooks needed to be simple and easily read, but even my filler images did a better job than Gateway or Rebis.
    Kudos to: Laffont, finally did it good in 2021. (ok, also in 2009, because later I discovered they own Pocket)
    Beware: Big spoiler in one Bulgarian cover.
    Wtf moments: fun one: Latvia and its vikings on a banana boat; and plainly bad one: that Serbian cover is a p*nis!


  • Technical info:

    • I made a template using Seamonkey (the most similar editor I found to my dearest Netscape Composer) and then used Notepad++ for the rest because I hate automatic (or inelegant) indentations and it's faster. When (almost always) needed, edited the pictures with the old Paint Shop Pro 5 (yeah, from 1998) and checked them with the also vintage AcdSee 3 (incredibly, all still running in Windows 10). Best viewed on a desktop computer. Didn't really tested if it was phone friendly before going online. Sorry for my Geocities era HTML knowledge. But in Android it looked not as bad as I imagined. The main computer I used had a 1920 width resolution. In the one with 1366 the site looks right with a 90% zoom.
    And in the sorted page there are link jump points by country if anyone want to link one of them somewhere. Or, again, just save the pics. No problem.

    Quick numbers: in this site there are around 970* Dune covers from 44 countries (or 46 if counting former Yugoslavia and USSR) in 36 languages (I was tempted to consider PT-PT as different from PT-BR, but no, we can easily read each other, just some funny words here and there) from 130 publishers**.
    (*) sometimes I counted the inside cover, sometimes don't. No rules. Also counted Eye and Encyclopedia, but not Doon and the others non-Dune.
    (**) It's hard to know who bought who and when, or what is an Inprint and not a Press.
    Saving the whole site takes 170 MB, 1044 images, 1030 thumbnails and 4 html pages. But one is the error page and another is this rambling, so you can ignore both. I tried avoiding thumbnails, but I think this way will be better for most users. Less quality in the front page (bummer) but no problem loading. And whoever wants to save everything, there are a lot of tools very easy to use.

    And to finish: my astonishingly drawn filler covers, noob base code and quick layout recap:

    • COUNTRY - Publisher (9999)
      ()

    <a id="country"></a> <--- only in sorted page
    <div align="left"><ul><li><b>COUNTRY</b> - Publisher (9999)<br></li></ul></div> <--- 9999 = year of the first book in the set
    <table width="99%" height="266" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="0" align="center"><tbody><tr>
       <td width="16%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="AAA99B1.jpg"><img src="AAA99B1.jpg" height="250" border="0"></a></td>
      <td width="16%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="AAA99B2.jpg"><img src="AAA99B2.jpg" height="250" border="0"></a>
        &nbsp;<a href="AAA99B2V.jpg"><img src="AAA99B2V.jpg" height="70" title="explanation" border="0"></a></td> <--- 1/3 size pic = slightly variant cover or no dust jacketed + mouse-over clarification
      <td width="16%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="AAA99B3.jpg"><img src="AAA99B3.jpg" height="250" border="0"></a></td>
      <td width="16%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="AAA99B4.jpg"><img src="AAA99B4.jpg" height="250" border="0"></a>
        (<a href="AAA99B4FULL.jpg"><img src="AAA99B4FULL.jpg" height="13" border="0"></a>)</td> <--- tiny pic in () = front and back or original art
      <td width="16%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="AAA99B5.jpg"><img src="AAA99B5.jpg" height="250" border="0"></a></td>
      <td width="16%" valign="top" align="left"><a href="AAA99B6.jpg"><img src="AAA99B6.jpg" height="250" border="0"></a></td>
    </tr></tbody></table>

  • Updates:

    • 17/dec: - some date and names correction. Thanks Reddit users! By the way, link for this site debut there.
    19/dec: - finally, Baronet new Kapitula: Duna. Also in Baronet, changed 2006 set to 1999, just noticed the error; and added book 1 without dust jacket as example (will not look for others, just yellow, white text, and sometimes a washed version of the same cover picture).
    - Replaced the blue Easton image with a 'bluer' picture.
    - Added the correct 1990 Putnam with the "25th Anniversary" text. The other got corrected to 1984 in 17/dec.
    - And added 13 magazine covers from Analog and Galaxy. They do not have "Dune art" on its covers but they are "Dune covers" nonetheless. A fair point from Reddit. Also, they have a goblin and a swimming hippopotamus. That's fine by me. And added Luminist Archives in the thanks above - almost all the new magazine covers I took from there.
    25/jan/2023: - Premedia's book 5 (Slovakia), one more to go.
    27/jan: - Portuguese translation and small flags for selection.


    And that's it again!

    Ptooey!