There’s a whole new generation of Atreides and Harkonnen families introduced in HBO’s prequel series “Dune: Prophecy,” set 10,000 years before the events of Denis Villeneuve’s two “Dune” movies. Since the show is set so far in the past,

HBO seems to be running Dune on the House of the Dragon OS, washing Frank Herbert’s universe in the network’s signature blend of elite power struggle and thorny personal relat

The fact that it has persisted for 10,000 years highlights its fundamental importance to Frank Herbert's universe.