Dune – Frank Herbert

Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender`s Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune: winner of the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards, and widely considered one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. Melange, or `spice`, is the most valuable - and rarest - element in the universe; a drug that does everything from increasing a person`s life-span to making intersteller travel possible. And it can only be found on a single planet: the inhospitable desert world Arrakis. Whoever controls Arrakis controls the spice. And whoever controls the spice controls the universe.