On its surface, the Dune universe is run by men. The Dune movies are about the chosen one, Paul Atreides, and his ascension ...

HBO’s “Dune: Prophecy,” set 10,000 years before the events of ‘Dune,’ follows a group of superhuman women fighting to maintain power in the galaxy.

The women of Dune mirror many real-life figures from history—and many from myth, too. Herbert was an avid reader and scholar, with interests that spanned topics from history to ecology.

Women and how they wield power are at the center of HBO's new series Dune: Prophecy, a prequel to the epic first imagined by Frank Herbert in the 1960s. The six-episode season, debuting Sunday on ...

Olivia Williams says her "Dune: Prophecy" character Tula cares more about the power of her mystical sisterhood, the Bene Gesserit, than the young women who belong to it.

Dune: Prophecy is truly a trailblazer when it comes to focusing on women in the Dune universe, and, as Schapker said, will also allow fans to learn much more about the always secretive and ...

A long-gestating prequel, about the women who seek to guide a galaxy, is splashy, somber and insufficiently spicy. By James Poniewozik “Dune,” the multi-novel, multi-movie saga, is in part ...

The women of Dune mirror many real-life figures from history—and many from myth, too. Herbert was an avid reader and scholar, with interests that spanned topics from history to ecology.