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  Frank Herbert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank Herbert was born in 1920 in Tacoma, Washington.
Herbert later related in an interview with Willis E. McNeilly that the novel originated when he was supposed to do a magazine article on sand dunes in Florence, Oregon, but he became too involved in it and ended up with far more raw material than needed for a single article.
Frank Herbert used his science fiction novels to explore complex ideas involving philosophy, religion, psychology, politics and ecology, which have inspired many of his readers to become interested in these areas.
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 Frank Herbert: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Herbert began researching Dune in 1959 and was able to devote himself more wholeheartedly to his writing career because his wife returned to work full time as an advertising writer for department stores, EHandler: no quick summary.
Children of dune is a science fiction novel by frank herbert, third in a series of six novels set in the dune universe....
The sardaukar are a fictional army from frank herberts dune universe, as depicted in the dune series of science-fiction novels....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/frank_herbert.htm   (7642 words)

  
 Frank Herbert
Herbert is often credited with introducing ecology into science fiction, in the sense of complex and believable systems of flora, fauna, and climate.
Frank Patrick Herbert was born October 8, 1920 in Tacoma Washington.
His father, Frank Herbert Sr., was a bus driver and, later, an officer of the state highway patrol.
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 Herbert, Frank
Penny Herbert Merritt, who spent most of her school-age years in Florence, says that her father, the famous science fiction writer Frank Herbert, invariably told the same story to people curious about the origins of his ideas.
Herbert's most famous idea resulted in the novel "Dune," published in 1965, about a waterless planet where a war is fought over the mining of a drug-like spice.
Frank Herbert, who had been a Navy correspondent and later worked for newspapers in Seattle and San Francisco, was unemployed, his daughter thinks, when he visited Florence in 1958 as a freelance writer for a story on dune stabilization efforts.
www.citizensforflorence.com /Issues/dune-herbert-1.html   (1122 words)

  
 Frank Herbert's World of Dune
Frank Herbert was born and lived throughout the Pacific states during his life time.
Frank Herbert’s world of Dune is a memorable classic of the Science Fiction genre.
Frank Herbert was an author ahead of his time.
www.geocities.com /area51/rampart/9638/dune.html   (1056 words)

  
 Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert, Jr., was born in Tacoma, Washington.
Herbert was a reporter and editor on a number of West Coast newspapers and wrote speeches for politicians.
Herbert also wrote, directed, and produced the television documentary 'The Tillers', which was based on his field work with Roy Prosterman in Pakistan, Vietnam and other countries.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /fherbert.htm   (1351 words)

  
 Featuring Frank Herbert's Dune Review at ActionTrip
Frank Herbert's Dune is certainly one of the most famous science-fiction books, or rather, series of books.
Frank Herbert's Dune is a poor excuse for trying to make an adventure game out of the original novel.
Frank Herbert's Dune is a huge disappointment for all adventure-game players, and might find some audience amongst hardcore Dune fans, but not for long.
www.actiontrip.com /reviews/frankherbertsdune.phtml   (808 words)

  
 Frank Herbert's Biography
Frank Herbert (1920-1986) created the most beloved novel in the annals of science fiction, DUNE.
Frank also had a daughter, Penny, born in 1942 from his first marriage.
Frank Herbert's last published novel, MAN OF TWO WORLDS, was a collaboration with his son, Brian.
www.dunenovels.com /bios/frank.html   (745 words)

  
 Star Wars Origins - Frank Herbert's Dune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Frank Herbert's 1963 Dune is to science fiction what The Lord of The Rings is to fantasy: the most popular, most influential and most critically-acclaimed novel in the genre.
Herbert observed that it was silly to use giant metal ships to transport liquids which weigh less than water, and so invented the idea of a giant rubber balloon, shaped like a sandworm, which could be dragged acorss the ocean's surface by a much-smaller, much less-expensive boat.
Frank Herbert was uneasy because the point of his novel was to explore the dangers of mistaking a man for a god, and the film implied that Paul was a god.
www.jitterbug.com /origins/dune.html   (10020 words)

  
 frank herbert lives - zone-sf.com
It was February 12th, 1986 and Frank Herbert, the creator of Dune, had lost his battle the previous evening with pancreatic cancer, passing away suddenly at the University of Wisconsin Medical Center in Madison.
Frank Herbert left more than just a void within our family; he'd left a void within a much bigger clan: the literary community.
The prequels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson are: Prelude To Dune: House Atreides, (1999), Prelude To Dune: House Harkonnen (2000), Prelude To Dune: House Corrino (2001).
www.zone-sf.com /frankherbert.html   (1921 words)

  
 Frank Herbert biography - SF/Fantasy Books
Born in Tacoma, Washington, Frank Herbert was a very precocious child and knew early in life that he wanted to be an author.
Herbert discussed every aspect of his stories with her, and she edited his work.
Herbert went beyond his contemporaries in terms of characterizations and plot, raising philosophical and ecological questions.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art25718.asp   (399 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1): Books: Frank Herbert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In fact, Herbert's view of the future (and the past) is basically an incredibly complex set of possibilities converging at a nexus point (in Dune, it's mainly Paul Muad'Dib) and subject to change via the slightest move.
Frank Herbert built three dynasties inside a galactic empire that is based on melange, a drug that was available on one planet only -- Arrakis, also known as Dune.
Frank Herbert's writing is flawed, and lacks polish - his exposition is sometimes wince-inducing, and his characterization is characterized by a "tell don't show" policy that contradicts ordinary standards of good writing.
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 Frank Herbert's seventh Dune novel
I have always believed that last two books that Frank Herbert wrote before his death were going to be part of a trilogy, and that he already had written down the global outline of the third book of that trilogy.
And although this interpretation is strengthed by the Eulogy for Beverly by Frank in the back of the book, it would not surprise me, that he has put this in, with the thought in mind that he might not be able to finish his last book in the series.
Herbert does create some additional suspense through this character, but it is more of a decoy (with nothing behind) then anything substantial.
www.iwriteiam.nl /Dune7.html   (2987 words)

  
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Science fiction writer Frank Herbert is ranked among such well-respected authors of imaginary worlds as J. Tolkien, C. Lewis, and Isaac Asimov.
A strong believer in self-reliance and ecological harmony, Herbert generated his own energy on his small farm with solar heating, methane gas from chicken dung, and wind power (from an improved windmill design for which he was awarded a U.S. patent).
Herbert wove many of his ecological ideas into all his novels.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200536   (409 words)

  
 The Official Dune Website
The two-volume grand climax of the DUNE saga, based on Frank Herbert's outline for "Dune 7." Brian and Kevin have written both manuscripts -- a total of nearly 1300 pages -- and are currently in the editing process.
Complex, brilliant and prophetic, Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imaginations of millions of readers worldwide — and transformed their perception of what the future could be.
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson are collaborating again on the seminal events of the Butlerian Jihad —; the epochal conflict between humans and thinking machines, set ten thousand years before the events in the Prelude to Dune Novels.
www.dunenovels.com   (475 words)

  
 The Templeton Gate - Authors - Frank Herbert
Frank Patrick Herbert (1920-1986) - A native of Washington state, he was a reporter and editor on several West Coast newspapers before becoming a full-time writer of SF.
Of course, what was eventually published as the novel Dune (1965) had been previously published as a series of shorter works originally known as "Dune World" and "Prophet of Dune," beginning with the December, 1963 issue of Analog.
Herbert could never be described as a prose stylist, but the political, philosophical, and psychological elements of these works are significant.
members.tripod.com /templetongate/herbert.htm   (590 words)

  
 The Plowboy Interview: Frank Herbert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In keeping with his beliefs, Frank's a devoted father, spouse, and family man. He's also an avid alternative energy experimenter who's created his own solar collector, windplant, and methane fuel generator.
Herbert, a little voice in the back of my mind keeps telling me that many readers of THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS'S will probably wonder why our do-it-yourself, ecologyoriented magazine is interviewing a prominent science fiction writer.
Herbert, it figures that you'd give me a prediction and then tell me not to believe it.
www.motherearthnews.com /top_articles/1981_May_June/The_Plowboy_Interview__Frank_Herbert   (6617 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Dune: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’; still holds a reputation as one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written, and while this product of the ‘60’s may inevitably be starting to feel a little creaky with age it still holds up remarkably well today.
Comparisons with the Lord Of The Rings in the level of detailed world-building are overstated, but Herbert does provide a good background both for Arrakis itself and the various powers that fight for dominance of the planet.
Where Herbert got the idea for them I don’t know but they take the book to such a higher level that any comparison with Lawrence of Arabia seems redundant and misguided.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0450011844   (1349 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
Brian Herbert is the eldest son of SF giant, Frank Herbert.
The early adventures of the Herbert family are short tales in themselves and are vividly recounted.
Although Frank Herbert left a great legacy, there was so much more he wanted to do.
www.sfsite.com /11a/dd163.htm   (758 words)

  
 IGN: Frank Herbert's Dune Review
Frank Herbert's Dunelands players smack in the middle of the sands of the desert planet Arrakis, the only location for the all-important spice.
From allusions to a romantic storyline between Paul-Muad'Dib and Chani, a young Fremen woman who is working on a way to bring paradise to Dune, to Paul's sister, Dame Alia Atreides, who at age 2 holds the spirits of her ancestors within her and, as such, is mature far beyond her age.
Frank Herbert's Dune, when all is said and done, is an enjoyable action game.
pc.ign.com /articles/165/165766p1.html   (1458 words)

  
 Interview with Frank Herbert and Beverly Herbert by Willis E. McNelly
Frank and his wife Bev are sitting around including myself, Dr. Willis E. McNelly of Cal. State English Department, Fullerton, California; sitting around, talking about science fiction.
Frank Herbert, as you all know, is the author of “Dune” and many other science fiction novels.
Frank, I wonder if you’d tell us a little bit about the origins of “Dune”.
www.sinanvural.com /seksek/inien/tvd/tvd2.htm   (4564 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - The Road to Dune - Frank Herbert - Hardcover
Included within are a treasure trove of never-before-published chapters, private correspondence, essays, and short stories, as well as the novelette "Spice Planet" by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, written from extensive outlines left by Frank Herbert.
Herbert and Anderson put it best in the introduction when they describe finding boxes containing vast notebooks left by Frank Herbert.
Frank Herbert's Dune is widely known as the science fiction equivalent of The Lord of the Rings, and The Road to Dune is a companion work comparable to The Silmarillion, shedding light on and following the remarkable development of the bestselling science fiction novel of all time.
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 TomFolio.com - Books by Author Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert became famous with his ecological science fiction novel Dune, set in a world of giant sandworms.
Frank Patrick Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1920, and had wide-ranging interests.
However, with the success of Dune in 1965, he was able devote his attention to his novel writing, but he did continue to lecture and act as a social and ecological consultant.
www.tomfolio.com /AuthorInfo/authors/F_Herbert.asp   (490 words)

  
 Frank Herbert -- All Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Acclaimed SF novelist Brian Herbert is the son of Dune author Frank Herbert.
By his death in 1986, Frank Herbert had completed six novels in the Dune series.
The great sandworms are dying, and the children of Dunes children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love.
www.non.com /books/Herbert_Frank_cc.html   (1619 words)

  
 Frank Herbert interview from 1969 | MetaFilter
I was sad when Herbert died, as I wanted to read the next 6 or 7 books in the series.
I had an experience much like the one 'rdone' reports, at age 12 or so, when I discovered that 'hajj' and 'taqwa' were not words that Herbert had invented for the purpose of advancing his story.
My sense is that Herbert drew upon a grab bag of exsiting Islamic--that is to say, Arabic language--concepts to flesh out a ripping yarn about interstellar holy war.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/43450   (3005 words)

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