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    Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

    By Brian Herbert

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    Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune.

    This amazing and complex epic, combining politics, religion, human evolution, and ecology, has captured the imagination of generations of readers. One of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, winning awards, selling millions of copies around the world. In the prophetic year of 1984, Dune was made into a motion picture directed by David Lynch, and it has recently been produced as a three-part miniseries on the Sci-Fi Channel. Though he is best remembered for Dune, Frank Herbert was the author of more than twenty books at the time of his tragic death in 1986, including such classic novels as The Green Brain, The Santaroga Barrier, The White Plague and Dosadi Experiment.

    Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's eldest son, tells the provocative story of his father's extraordinary life in this honest and loving chronicle. He has also brought to light all the events in Herbert's life that would find their way into speculative fiction's greatest epic.

    From his early years in Tacoma, Washington, and his education at the University of Washington, Seattle, and in the Navy, through the years of trying his hand as a TV cameraman, radio commentator, reporter, and editor of several West Coast newspaper, to the difficult years of poverty while struggling to become a published writer, Herbert worked long and hard before finding success after the publication of Dune in 1965. Brian Herbert writes about these years with a truthful intensity that brings every facet of his father's brilliant, and sometimes troubled, genius to full light.

    Insightful and provocative, containing family photos never published anywhere, this absorbing biography offers Brian Herbert's unique personal perspective on one of the most enigmatic and creative talents of our time.

    Dreamer of Dune is a 2004 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Related Work.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 19, 2003
    ISBN9781429958448
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    Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
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    Brian Herbert

    Brian Herbert, son of Frank Herbert, wrote the definitive biography of his father, Dreamer of Dune, which was a Hugo Award finalist. Brian is president of the company managing the legacy of Frank Herbert and is an executive producer of the motion picture Dune, as well as of the TV series Dune: The Sisterhood. He is the author or coauthor of more than forty-five books, including multiple New York Times bestsellers, has been nominated for the Nebula Award, and is always working on several projects at once. He and his wife, Jan, have traveled to all seven continents, and in 2019, they took a trip to Budapest to observe the filming of Dune.

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    • 3/5
      Nicely read but nothing deep like the original books.
    • 4/5
      Not as good as their other Dune books, but I love the cover. At times it seemed like an excuse for the authors to indulge in some of their pet characters from the prequels.
    • 3/5
      As much as I love the Dune series, I have to admit that I was bored for much of this book. Too much of the story left me just not caring. That may be a function of the fact that this book has to be shoe-horned in between Dune Messiah and Children of Dune so character development or changes are, by necessity, limited. 
    • 4/5
      Brian Herbert's latest tale in the Dune saga takes place immediately after Dune Messiah. The emperor Paul Muad'dib has wandered off into the desert, presumably eaten by worms. His sister Alia is regent until Paul's new-born twins come of age.Like Paul of Dune, this book bounces back and forth to events in Paul's life that happened pre-Dune. The purpose this time is a little more focused -- the events then have direct consequence in this story. The story predominately follows Lady Jessica, Paul's mother. The empire is not in a good place, and has not been so since Paul was still in charge. One begins to understand why his sister, Alia, goes nutty in Children of Dune. In this book, her reaction to any provocation is extreme to say the least.This book fills more gaps and details. For those who can't get enough of the Dune universe, it's more brain candy. There is no joy in this book -- some characters deserve a measure of empathy,others make you wonder what happened to humanity. Even so, it is what it is...which is part of the Dune mythos. Prerequisites are Dune, Paul of Dune, and Dune Messiah.
    • 3/5
      This book offers an insight into what happened on Dune (Arrakis) just after Paul Maud'dib walked off into the sands. The name of the game is intrigue and everyone is playing. Alia wants to stop Bronso of Ix from decrediting her brother's Messiah image, but is that what he is doing? Was there more to Paul than Alia wants known or knows? Irulen continues to write Paul/Maud'dib's story, but is what she writes true or are there underlying factors at play? Who is telling her what to write and what does she really want to say? And whose side is Lady Jessica really on?A typical Dune book filling in where Dune Messiah left off.