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Frank Herbert | | Birth Date: |
8 October 1920 | | Death Date: |
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 Biography of Frank Herbert
6495 words, approx. 21.7 pages
 Born in Tacoma, Washington, Frank Patrick Herbert is best known as the author of the Dune series. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle (1946-1947), where he later lectured (1970-1972), and worked for many years as a journalist for West Coa... summary from source:
 Biography of Frank Herbert
5364 words, approx. 17.9 pages
Paul Atreides, the young renegade Duke, and his mother, Jessica, were fleeing across the desert when they got their first good look at a maker. "Where the dunes began ... a silver-gray curve broached from the desert, sending rivers of sand and dust casca... summary from source:
 Biography of Frank (Patrick) Herbert
3818 words, approx. 12.7 pages
Born in Tacoma, Washington, Frank Herbert is best known as the author of the Dune series. He worked for many years as a journalist for West Coast newspapers from San Francisco to Seattle and at a wide range of other jobs, of which his experiences in the...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Children of Dune Information
4,433 words, approx. 15 pages
 <i>Children of Dune</i> is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, third in a series of six novels set in the <a href="/Dune_universe" title="Dune universe">Dune universe</a>. The novel was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1977. It was...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Willis E. Mcnelly
379 words, approx. 1 pages
Frank Herbert's long-awaited finale of his Dune trilogy, Children of Dune, cannot be dismissed casually as just another space opera. To be sure, there is plenty of traditional science-fiction action for the true believer, but, as with the earlier novels, Dune and Dune Messiah, there's much to satisfy ecologists, anthropologists and speculative theologians, as well. Arrakis, the desert planet, sole source in the universe of a genuine life-prolonging drug, is the real hero…. Children of D... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Gerald Jonas
334 words, approx. 1 pages
To appreciate Frank Herbert's achievement in the Dune trilogy, which concludes with "Children of Dune" …, you have to be a devotee of obsession. On the surface, the Dune books offer an unlikely combination of old-fashioned space opera, up-to-date ecological concern and breathtakingly ecumenical religiosity. The space opera elements include a decaying galactic empire, heroes and villains of nearly superhuman power, and truly formidable monsters. The ecology centers around the plan...
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