Frank Herbert

In the fall of 1977, when I was a couple of years out of college, I received an unexpected call from a friend, Dick Riley. He'd just landed a new job at a small publisher called Frederick Ungar, as the editor of a series of short critical monographs on detective and science-fiction writers. He was looking for authors, and as he knew I was fond of science fiction, he thought of me. Would I write a book about Frank Herbert, he wanted to know. [More]

Contents

• Introduction: How I Came to Write Frank Herbert
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Dancing on the Edge: An Introduction
• Chapter 2: Under Pressure
• Chapter 3: From Concept to Fable: The Evolution of Dune
• Chapter 4: The Hero
• Chapter 5: Rogue Gods
• Chapter 6: An Ecology of Consciousness
• Chapter 7: The Worm Turns
• Chapter 8: Transcending the Human
• Chapter 9: How It All Begins Again
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index