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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...

HANDEL Messiah * John Rutter, cond; Joanne Lunn (sop); Melanie Marshall (alt); James Gilchrist (ten); Christopher Purves (bar); Royal PO; Cambridge Singers * HENDRICKSON PUBLISHERS 56126X (2 CDs 136:34 *) The popularity of Messiah makes it difficult for us to comprehend that for...

Dancing in the dunes Sands of time pile up in San Luis Valley By STEPHEN TRIMBLE Sunday, September 3, 2000 Jake leaped through the mirage at the lip of the dune -- and disappeared. Had he passed into another dimension?...

Dune Messiah should be considered not as a sequel to the massive Dune novel, but as the penultimate section of an as-yet-incomplete work—whether trilogy, tetralogy or five-act epic matters not. The objection to criticizing Dune Messiah as a simple sequel to the earlier novel is that almost invariably it has been seen as some sort of "repeat performance," and as such judged in terms of what the critic thought were the important themes of its predecessor. Considering it merely as a furthe...

God-Emperor of Dune suffers from a bad ending—and this is the third Dune book to have that problem. In Dune Messiah, several hundred pages of complex conspiracy and intrigue resulted in the use of an atomic bomb to do a job that Moe of the Three Stooges could have accomplished with two fingers. (And why bother blinding a prescient in the first place?) In Children of Dune, the rules of the game were changed in the last quarter, when, after more hundreds of pages of equally intricate plotting and count...