Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert was a journalist and writer, primarily in the genre of science-fiction. His best-selling novel, Dune, won the Nebula award for Best Novel in 1965 and shared the 1966 Hugo award for Best Novel with …And Call Me Conrad (aka This Immortal) by Roger Zelazny.http://www.nebulaawards.com/index.php/awards/nebulas/P40/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1966-hugo-awards/ The first of six bestselling novels set in the Dune Universe, Dune inspired a feature film in 1984, a video game released in 1992, and a television mini-series in 2000.http://www.dunenovels.com/author/frank-herbert

Herbert met and married Flora Parkinson in 1941 and had daughter Penelope the next year, but their marriage ended in divorce shortly thereafter. He met Beverly Ann Stuart while in a writing class at the University of Washington in 1946 and married her the same year. Sons Brian and Bruce were born in 1947 and 1951, respectively, and the couple remained together for almost 40 years.http://www.dunenovels.com/author/frank-herbert A year after Beverly's death in 1984, Herbert married once again, this time to Theresa Shackleford. Less than a year later, he died of complications from pancreatic cancer. Years after his death, Herbert's family found a cache of notes and unpublished stories that would form the basis for a series of additional Dune Universe novels co-written by son Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Andersonhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/539275/ref=amb_right-1_119563_3/103-7006628-5924624

Frank Herbert began his career as a journalist, reportedly lying about his age in 1939 to secure his first job working for the Glendale Star. Over the next few decades, he worked as a writer and editor for publications like the Oregon Statesman, San Francisco Examiner, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer before deciding to focus on his career as an author in 1972.http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19860213&id=gQQOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WG4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6996,3769073 He also enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942 but was discharged less than a year later for medical reasons.http://books.google.com/books?id=Hmg0YFP52XcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9780765306463&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

After the war, Herbert occasionally published adventure stories in magazines such as Esquire, Doc Savage, and Alaska Life.http://tim.oreilly.com/herbert/biblio.htmlhttp://www.dunenovels.com/author/frank-herbert Although he later made a name for himself as a science-fiction writer, Herbert did not begin writing in that genre until the 1950s, when his work began to appear in genre magazines like Astounding Science Fiction and Fantastic.http://members.multimania.co.uk/Fenrir/ctdinterviews.htm In 1955 he submitted his first full-length novel, Under Pressure, which was immediately picked up for serialization in Astounding Science Fiction and published as a novel by Doubleday the following year under the title Dragon in the Sea.http://frankherbert.org/books/DreamerExcerpt.html

Inspired by research into a U.S. Department of Agriculture project on sand dunes in Florence, Oregon, Herbert spent years researching and developing what he initially planned as a trilogy of stories beginning with the novel Dune and continuing with Dune Messiah and Children of Dune.http://members.multimania.co.uk/Fenrir/ctdinterviews.htm He would go on to publish three more novels continuing the Dune series, as well as many more novels, short stories, and other works. Herbert also collaborated with author Bill Ransom on several books collectively known as the WorShip novels, and shortly before his death Herbert co-authored the book Man of Two Worlds with his son Brian.

"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it."

• 1956: Dragon in the Sea aka Under Pressure

• 1965: Dune

• 1966: The Green Brain

• 1966: Destination: Void

• 1966: The Eyes of Heisenberg

• 1968: The Heaven Makers

• 1968: The Santaroga Barrier

• 1970: Dune Messiah

• 1970: The Worlds of Frank Herbert

• 1970: Whipping Star

• 1972: Soul Catcher

• 1972: The Godmakers

• 1973: The Book of Frank Herbert

• 1973: Hellstrom's Hive

• 1975: The Best of Frank Herbert

• 1976: Children of Dune

• 1977: The Dosadi Experiment

• 1979: The Jesus Incident (with Bill Ransom)

• 1980: The Priests of Psi

• 1980: Direct Descent

• 1981: God Emporer of Dune

• 1982: The White Plague

• 1983: The Lazarus Effect (with Bill Ransom)

• 1984: Heretics of Dune

• 1985: Chapterhouse: Dune

• 1985: Eye

• 1986: Man of Two Worlds (with Brian Herbert)

• 1988: The Ascension Factor (with Bill Ransom)