Dreamer of Dune : the biography of Frank Herbert / Brian Herbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herbert, Brian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herbert, Frank.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Science fiction--Authorship.

Science fiction.

Dune (Imaginary place).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

576 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Tor, 2003.

Summary:

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 and selling millions of copies. 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 The 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 in the navy and at the University of Washington, Seattle, through the years of trying his hand as a TV cameraman, radio commentator, reporter, and editor of several West Coast newspapers, 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.

Contents:

Book I Pearl of Great Price

1. Adventures in Darkest Africa 15

2. The Spanish Castle 28

3. Cub Reporter 38

4. "But He's So Blond!" 53

5. The White Witch 63

6. The Jungian Connection 69

7. The Newsman and Captain Video 78

8. The South Seas Dream 87

9. The Family Car 103

10. Easy Pie 123

11. They Stopped the Moving Sands 133

12. A Writer in Search of His Voice 149

13. Zen and the Working Class 160

14. The Worlds of Dune 171

15. Number Two Son 195

16. Honors 203

17. Tara 216

Book II Xanadu

18. A New Relationship 229

19. Soul Catcher: The Story That Had to Be Written 239

20. Xanadu 252

21. A New Struggle 261

22. Children of Dune 275

23. Caretakers of the Earth 283

24. Miracles 288

25. Old Dreams, New Dreams 300

26. The Apprenticeship of Number One Son 308

27. We Used to Visit Them All the Time 315

Book III Kawaloa

28. First Class 327

29. Some Things My Father Did Well 338

30. Kawaloa by the Sea 350

31. Brave Heart 358

32. I'll Take Your Worries If You Take Mine 367

33. The White Plague Is Taking Off! 378

34. Her Warrior Spirit 384

35. My Mother's Plan 403

36. There Are Flowers Everywhere 416

37. The Race to Finish Kawaloa 419

38. A Woman of Grace 433

39. Her Plan, Revealed 441

40. Live Your Life! 451

41. This Is for Bev 464

42. Bridge Over Troubled Water 475

43. Ho-Hum, Another Day in Paradise 491

44. And a Snowy Good Morning to You! 499

45. How Bare the Pathway Down This Mountain 515.

Notes:

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-562) and index.

ISBN:

0765306468

OCLC:

51040937

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