Dune - Creating The Audiobooks

In this video the actors and post-production team explain what it was like to bring one of science fiction's greatest literary achievements to life as an audiobook.

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Entertainment

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• Frank Herbert
• Dune
• Science Fiction
• Scott Brick
• Kathryn Kellgren
• Euan Morton
• Simon Vance
• Macmillan
• Macmillan Audio
• Dune Messiah
• Children Of Dune
• God Emperor of Dune
• Heretics of Dune
• Chapterhouse Dune.

[audiobooksrock]

So cool to watch some of the Dune readers talk about the experience--especially seeing Frank Herbert's original pronunciation notes!

[faviv]

I'd love to see the notes, too. Dune is a great old book (well, a series...)

[horusrage]

@redplague you can find better copies I have a few ... problem is the one with more then one guy doing it while great in quality is very high as a download ... I have the latter copies now and gave the earlier to relatives to keep. I personally purchased them all and I think it was completely and utterly worth it.

ftr though it was very very very very costly.

[TucoRamirez2]

Scott Brick is the man!

[nynosix]

ah tray a dees

[dune2online]

@Mechanisttm hey

do you know a proper way of attaining it?

[eightsides]

Very interesting! There should be more vids on Youtube about audiobook production in general! I mean, aren't there hundreds, thousands of audiobooks out there?

[billysunerson]

@Mymloch If you look at the pronunciation page that Herbert wrote, it clearly shows the emphasis is on the second syllable. It is unfortunate.

[Mymloch]

1:15 Too bad she says she makes a big deal of pronouncing "Alia" and she pronounces it wrong by putting the accent on the second syllable as opposed to the first.

[Mechanisttm]

I just listened the audio book of Dune narrated by George Guidall. What an freaking awesome book. the book is pure genius what a gem to only read now. The voice acting by george is turely amazing. Highly recommended.

[AgentGraves007]

i live in albany, NY and we have a huge public library system - i was able to find the official audiobook of pretty much every single dune book, original and Herbert/Anderson. I got really lucky on that. i also own all the books, but i enjoy the audio experience more.

[redplague]

I tried looking for the audio book on the internet but all I could find was this one of a guy doing all the voices and that was crap.