I’ve read “The Lazarus Effect” and all the Dune books by him. Not bad but the movie sucked. The HBO series was much better. Blade Runner is sort of the Bach of sci-fi movies. I like Larry Niven books for the realism, and I wish they would make movies like that.
I think the series was broadcast by the Si-fy channel rather than HBO and I agree it was better but you still just can't capture the scope and depth of Dune on the screen.