An active member of the World Without War Council, Herbert was a consultant on social and ecological problems to the Lincoln Foundation and to the governments of Vietnam and Pakistan; he also developed a six-acre ecological demonstration project in his native Washington.
Following the immense success of Dune, Herbert embarked on a lecture tour of college campuses in which he emphasized the relationship between the environmental concerns expressed in Dune and contemporary environmental issues, and in doing so, he helped spark the environmental movement in America. In 1973 he wrote and directed The Tillers, a television special. In 1984 Universal Studios released a movie adaptation of Dune written and directed by David Lynch. Herbert was cowinner of the International Fantasy Award in 1956 for The Dragon in the Sea, winner of the Nebula Award in 1965 and cowinner of the Hugo Award in 1966 for Dune, and winner of the Prix Apollo in 1978. He received an honorary doctor of humanities degree from Seattle University in 1980. Married three times, Herbert had three children. He died of a blood clot in his lung following cancer surgery on 11 February 1986, in Madison, Wisconsin.
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