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...

HONG KONG By Jan Morris Random House. 359 pp. $19.95 THE TRAVEL writer carries a massive disadvantage in his Samsonite; he is instructed to write captivatingly and in depth, with insider knowledge, of a place he flies into, where he has...

A ll too often, while I'm playing with my boat, I forget that good sailors live by the basic tenets of Murphy's Law: whatever can go wrong will go wrong. The law's reliability has been demonstrated time after time, whenever I unfurl...

["The Dragon in the Sea"] is a sea story of an imaginary war that comes very close to matching—in suspense, action and psychic strain—any chronicle of real war by C. S. Forester or Herman Wouk. Frank Herbert writes of the next war, a conflict wherein the "curtains" are so impenetrable that the only theatre of action is under the sea. In marvelously convincing fashion, he tells the grim saga of a "subtug," venturing across the Atlantic to raid the enemy...