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Dune
"Dune," published by Frank Herbert in 1965, follows young nobleman Paul Atreides as his family takes control of the desert planet Arrakis, the universe's only source of the vital spice melange, in a sweeping story blending ecology, politics, religion, and prophecy across an intricately built galactic empire. Herbert reportedly drew heavily on his own research into desert ecology and Middle Eastern and Islamic history and culture while developing the novel's fictional Fremen desert people and its central resource-scarcity political themes, giving the book an unusually researched real-world grounding for its era's science fiction. The novel was rejected by more than twenty publishers before finally being accepted, and it went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula awards, becoming the best-selling science fiction novel of all time and spawning a multi-book series along with numerous film and television adaptations across subsequent decades. Dune's combination of its unusually researched ecological and political world-building and its record-setting status as the best-selling science fiction novel ever published has made it one of the most influential works in the entire history of the genre.
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Ender's Game
"Ender's Game," published by Orson Scott Card in 1985 as an expansion of his own earlier 1977 short story, follows child prodigy Andrew "Ender" Wiggin as he's trained at a military academy to lead humanity's defense against an alien invasion, building toward a genre-defining narrative twist about the true nature of his training. The novel became widely used in military leadership and strategy education, including reported use at institutions like the U.S. Marine Corps University, reflecting its serious engagement with themes of command decision-making, strategic thinking, and the psychological cost of leadership under extreme pressure. Ender's Game won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, a rare double honor, and its exploration of a brilliant child forced into adult-level moral and strategic responsibility became one of the most influential and widely read entries in military-themed science fiction. Ender's Game's combination of its Hugo-and-Nebula-winning critical reception and its notable real-world use in military leadership education has made it one of the most significant science fiction novels of the late 20th century.
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