- Arrakis is also an alternative name for the star Mu Draconis.
Arrakis (; , , "the dancer") — informally known as
Dune and later called
Rakis — is a fictional
desert planet featured in the
Dune series of novels by
Frank Herbert. Herbert's first novel in the series, 1965's
Dune, is popularly considered one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, and it is sometimes cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history.