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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...

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...

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...

Children of Dune Prebook 4/22; Street 5/20 Artisan, Sci-Fi, $30 VHS, $26.98 DVD, NR. Stars Susan Sarandon, Alec Newman, Daniela Amavia, James McAvoy, Jessica Brooks. Sci-fi fans rejoice: Dune's heir has finally arrived, looking even better and more detailed than its predecessor....

Television 'Children of Dune' is tough trek By JOANNE WEINTRAUB of the Journal Sentinel staff Sunday, March 16, 2003 "Children of Dune," the Sci-Fi Channel's latest take on the celebrated Frank Herbert fantasy series, is adult, engrossing, visually stunning and...

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...

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...