Publishers Weekly, February 10th, 2003
BRIAN HERBERT. Tor, $27.95 (560p) ISBN 0-765-30646-8
* Frank Herbert's oldest son (playfully called "number one son" by his father) paints an extraordinary portrait of the visionary behind the ecological SF classic Dune (1965), its bestselling sequels, the David Lynch film and many other works. Compulsively readable, despite the often extraneous detail, the biography explores the evolution of a "modern day Socrates" who "tore into... unexamined linguistic and cultural assumptions," extrapolating "words and tradition he thought might exist in the future. At age eight, Herbett, the child of i...
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