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Over the years it has been my mission to persuade people to read Frank Herbert’s Dune. By force if necessary. Because how can you go through life not knowing of the Missionaria Protectiva? How can you look for the Kwisatz Haderach if you don’t know what it is?

Recently I discovered that Scrat has not read Dune, exposing a gaping hole in his over-education. I’d given away my paperback copies and I’m not about to hand over my beautiful hardcover copy that was personally wrapped in plastic by Teddyboy Locsin. (So much for his arcane theories on book covering: in this climate the plastic sticks to the cover, and years later when you try to take off the plastic the cover art gets peeled off. The obvious solution is to stash your books in London, Bratislava, someplace temperate and less humid than Manila.)

So I went to three bookstores in search of the first Dune. There were rows of Dune books—the sequels by Herbert himself, and the later books by his son, but not the original Dune.

There was a single volume containing Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune, but in truth I do not love the sequels.

Anyone want to trade in their copy of Dune?

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Found the paperback! In the first place I should’ve looked: National Bookstore.