Frank Herbert

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Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 - February 11, 1986) is an American science fiction writer famous for his novel Dune and its five sequels. Although he became famous for his long novels, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecologist consultant, and lecturer.

The Dune saga, set in a distant future and lasts for thousands of years, deals with complex themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and religious, political, and military junction. Dune itself is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time and this series is widely regarded as one of the classical genres.

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Biography

Early life

Frank Herbert was born on October 8, 1920, in Tacoma, Washington, to Frank Patrick Herbert, Sr. and Eileen (McCarthy) Herbert. Due to the poor home environment, he ran away from home in 1938 to live with an aunt and uncle in Salem, Oregon. She enrolled in high school at Salem High School (now North Salem High School), where she graduated the following year. In 1939 he lied about his age to get his first newspaper job at Glendale Star. Herbert then returned to Salem in 1940 where he worked for the Oregon Statesman (now Statesman Journal) newspaper in various positions, including photographers.

He served in the US Navy Seabees for six months as a photographer during World War II, then he was given medical exemption. He married Flora Parkinson in San Pedro, California in 1940. They had a daughter, Penny (b 16 February 1942), but divorced in 1945.

After the war, Herbert studied at the University of Washington, where he met Beverly Ann Stuart in a creative writing class in 1946. They were the only students who had sold works for publication; Herbert had sold two pulp adventure stories to the magazine, first to Esquire in 1945, and Stuart had sold a story to Modern Romance magazine. They married in Seattle, Washington on June 20, 1946 and had two sons, Brian Patrick Herbert (June 29, 1947, Seattle, Washington) and Bruce Calvin Herbert (June 26, 1951, Santa Rosa, California d.15, 1993, , San Rafael, California, a professional photographer and gay rights activist).

In 1949, Herbert and his wife moved to California to work at Santa Rosa Press-Democrat . Here they are friends with psychologists Ralph and Irene Slattery. Slatterys introduces Herbert to the work of some thinkers who will affect his writings, including Freud, Jung, Jaspers and Heidegger; they also know Herbert with Zen Buddhism.

Herbert did not graduate from university; according to his son, Brian, he just wanted to learn what attracted him and did not complete the required curriculum. He returned to journalism and worked in Seattle Star and Oregon State. She was a writer and editor for San Francisco's Examiner magazine California Living for a decade.

In an interview in 1973, Herbert stated that he had read science fiction "about ten years" before he started writing in the genre, and he listed his favorite authors as H. G. Wells, Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson and Jack Vance.

Herbert's first science fiction story, "Looking for Something", was published in the April 1952 edition of The Opening Books , then edited monthly by Samuel Mines. Three more of his stories appeared in 1954 on the issues of Amazing Science Fiction and Amazing Stories . His career as a novelist began in 1955 with the publication of the series Under Pressure in Astonishing from November 1955; after which it was issued as a book by Doubleday, The Dragon in the Sea . The story explores sanity and madness in a 21st century submarine environment and predicts conflicts around the world about oil consumption and production. It is a critical success but not a big commercial one. During this time Herbert also worked as a speechwriter for Republican Party senator Guy Cordon.

Dune

Herbert began researching Dune in 1959. He was able to devote himself wholeheartedly to his writing career because his wife returned to full-time work as an advertising writer for department stores, becoming a breadwinner during the 1960s. He then tells Willis E. McNelly that the novel originated when he was supposed to make a magazine article about dune in Dunes Oregon near Florence, Oregon. He becomes too involved and ends up with much more raw material than is necessary for an article. The article was never written, but instead planted the seed that caused Dune .

Dune took six years of research and writing to be completed and that was much longer than commercial science fiction from the time it was supposed to go. Analog (the name was changed Astonishing , still edited by John W. Campbell) published it in two parts consisting of eight installments, "Dune World" from December 1963 and "Prophet of Dune "in 1965. It was later rejected by nearly twenty book publishers. An editor wrote, "I might make mistakes from this decade, but...".

Sterling E. Lanier, editor of Chilton Book Company (known primarily for automated repair manuals) has read the Dune series and offered $ 7,500 plus future royalties for the rights to publish it as a hardcover book. Herbert rewrote many of her texts. Dune immediately critical success. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965 and shared the Hugo Award in 1966 with ... And Call Me Conrad by Roger Zelazny. Dune is the first major ecological science fiction novel, embracing many sweeping, interrelated themes and multiple character views, a method that runs through all Herbert's mature work.

Dune did not immediately become a bestseller. By 1968, Herbert had earned $ 20,000 from him, far more than most science fiction novels at the time, but not enough to make him write full-time. However, the publication Dune opened the door for her. He was the author of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer education from 1969 to 1972 and a lecturer in general studies and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Washington (1970-1972). He worked in Vietnam and Pakistan as a social and ecological consultant in 1972. In 1973 he was director-photographer of The Tillers television show.

A man is a fool for not putting everything he has, at a certain moment, into what he creates. You are there now doing things on paper. You do not kill swans, you only produce eggs. So I do not worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's just a matter of sitting and working. I have never had problem writing block. I've heard about that. I feel reluctant to write a few days, for a whole week, or sometimes even longer. I would rather go fishing, for example, or go sharpening a pencil, or go swimming, or what not. But, then, back and read what I was producing, I could not detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Now it's time to write and now I will write." There is no difference in the paper between the two.

In 1972, Herbert retired from newspaper writing and became a full-time fiction writer. During the 1970s and 1980s, Herbert enjoyed commercial success as a writer. He split his time between homes in Hawaii and the Olympic Peninsula in Washington; his home in Port Townsend on the peninsula is meant to be an "ecological demonstration project". During this time he wrote many books and encouraged ecological and philosophical ideas. He continued his Dune saga, following it with Dune Messiah , Dune's Children , and Dewa Emperor Dune . Another highlight is the Dosadi Trial , God Makers , The White Plague and the books he wrote in partnership with Bill Ransom: Jesus Incident , Lazarus Effect , and Up Factor is the sequel Destination: Void . He also helped launch Terry Brooks career with a very positive review of Brooks's first novel, The Sword of Shannara, in 1977.

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Herbert's change in luck is overshadowed by tragedy. In 1974, Beverly underwent surgery for cancer. He lived ten years more, but his health was affected by surgery. During this period, Herbert was the keynote speaker at the Octocon II science fiction convention at El Rancho Tropicana in Santa Rosa, California in October 1978; in 1979, he met anthropologist James Funaro with whom he held a Contact Conference. Beverly Herbert died on February 7, 1984, the same year as Herethics of Dune was published; at the closing to 1985's , Frank Herbert wrote a speech for him.

In 1983, the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden requested permission from the publisher Herbert to name the song on their album Piece of Mind after Dune, but was told that the author had a strong not love their music style. They even sang the song "To Tame a Land".

1984 was a tumultuous year in Herbert's life. During the same year of his wife's death, his career began with the release of David Lynch's movie version of Dune . Despite high expectations, large-budget production design and A-list players, the film attracts mostly bad reviews in the United States. However, despite the disappointing response in the US, the film was a critical and commercial success in Europe and Japan.

After Beverly's death, Herbert married Theresa Shackleford in 1985, the year he published the Babe: Dune , which binds many stories to this story. This will be Herbert's last single work (collection of Eye published that year, and Man of Two Worlds published in 1986). He died of massive pulmonary embolism while recuperating from pancreatic cancer surgery on February 11, 1986, in Madison, Wisconsin aged 65. He grew up Catholic but adopted Zen Buddhism as an adult.

Criticism of government

Herbert was a strong critic of the Soviet Union. He is a distant relative of the Republican controversial senator, Joseph McCarthy, whom he calls "Joe's Cousin." Herbert was shocked to learn that the blacklist of suspected McCarthy suspected Communists worked in a certain career and believed that he was jeopardizing the essential freedom of the citizens of the United States. Herbert believed that the government was lying to protect themselves and that, following the famous Watergate scandal, President Richard Nixon had unwittingly taught important lessons in disbelieving the government.

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All governments experience recurring problems: The forces attract pathological personalities. Not that power is destructive but it is magnetic for the finite. Such people tend to become drunk with violence, a condition that makes them quickly addicted.

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Ideas and themes

Frank Herbert uses his science fiction novel to explore complex ideas involving philosophy, religion, psychology, politics, and ecology. The underlying impulse of his work is the attraction with the question of human survival and evolution. Herbert has attracted a fanatic fan base, many of whom have tried to read everything he writes, fiction or non-fiction, and see Herbert as something of authority on the subject of his books. Indeed, such is the devotion of some of his readers that Herbert was sometimes asked if he founded a cult, something he strongly refused.

There are a number of key themes in Herbert's work:

• Attention to leadership. He explores the human tendency to enslave following a charismatic leader. He investigated the shortcomings and potential of bureaucracy and government.
• Herbert was the first science fiction writer to popularize the idea of ​​ecology and system thinking. He stressed the need for human thinking systematically and long term.
• The relationship between religion, politics, and power.
• human survival and evolution: Herbert writes about Fremen, Sardaukar, and Dosadi, shaped by their terrible living conditions into a super-dangerous race.
• Human possibilities and potential: Herbert offers Mentat, Bene Gesserit, and Bene Tleilax as different visions of human potential.
• The nature of sanity and madness. Frank Herbert was interested in Thomas Szasz's work and the anti-psychiatric movement. Often, Herbert poses the question, " What's sane? ", and while there are clearly crazy behaviors and psychopaths as expressed by characters (Piter De Vries for example), it is often suggested that normal and abnormal terms relative that sometimes are not well equipped to apply to one another, especially on the basis of statistical regularity.
• Possible effects and consequences of altered chemical consciousness, such as the spice in the Dune saga, as well as the mushroom "Jaspers" in The Santaroga Barrier , and Kelp in Purpose: The sequence Void.
• How language forms thinking. More specifically, Herbert was influenced by Alfred Korzybski General Semantics . Algis Budrys writes that his knowledge of language and linguistics "is at least one Ph.D. and the Chair of Philology at a good New England college".
• Sociobiology. How our instincts unconsciously affect our behavior and society.
• Learn, teach, and think.

Frank Herbert refrained from offering an answer to his readers for the many questions he was exploring.

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Status and effect on science fiction

Dune and Dune saga is one of the best-selling science fiction series and novels in the world; Dune has especially received widespread critical recognition, won the Nebula Award in 1965 and shared the Hugo Award in 1966, and is often regarded as one of the best science fiction novels ever, if not the best. Locus subscribers selected it as the best SF novel of all time in 1975, again in 1987, and the best "before 1990" in 1998.

Dune is considered a historic novel for a number of reasons:

• Dune is a landmark of soft science fiction. Herbert deliberately press technology in his world of Dune so he can overcome the future of humanity, not the future of human technology. Dune considers the way humans and their institutions change over time.
• Dune is the first major ecological science fiction novel. Frank Herbert is a great thinker of scientific ideas; many of his fans praised Frank Herbert for introducing them to philosophy and psychology. In Dune he helped popularize the term ecology and some field concepts, clearly instilling a sense of planetary consciousness. Gerald Jonas explains in The New York Times Book Review: "So really Mr. Herbert discovered the human and animal interactions and the geography and climate that Dune became the standard for a new subgenre of fiction scientific 'ecology'. "As Dune's popularity rose, Herbert embarked on a lecture tour on campuses, explaining how Dune's environmental problems are analogous to our own.
• Dune is considered an epic example of the development of the literary world. The Library Journal reported that " Dune is what science fiction The Lord of the Rings is a fantasy". Arthur C. Clarke is quoted as making a similar statement on the back cover of the paper edition of Dune . Frank Herbert imagined every aspect of his creation. He lovingly includes glossaries, quotations, documents, and history, to bring the universe alive to its readers. No science fiction novel before it was so obviously aware of life in another world.

Herbert never again matched the critical acclaim he received for Dune. Both his sequel to Dune and his other books won the Hugo Award or the Nebula, even though almost all of them were the Best Seller of the New York Times . Some feel that the Dune Children are almost too literary and too dark to get a possible recognition; others feel that the Dosadi Trial does not have the epic quality that fans expect.

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Many of Herbert's works make reading difficult. His ideas really develop concepts, not just decorative ideas, but they are sometimes manifested in very complex plots and are articulated in prose that does not always match the level of thought [...] But his best novels are the work of an intellectual speculative with some rivals in modern science fiction.

The Fiction Hall of Fame Science appointed Herbert in 2006.

California State University, Pollack Fullerton Library has several manuscripts of Herbert's design from Dune and other works, with author's notes, in their Frank Herbert Archive.

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Bibliography

Works published posthumously

Beginning in 2012, Herbert's plantations and WordFire Press have released four unpublished novels in e-book and paperback format: High-Opp (2012), Angels' Fall (2013 ), A Game of Authors (2013), and A Thorn in the Bush (2014).

In recent years, Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert and author Kevin J. Anderson have added the Dune franchise, using notes left by Frank Herbert and discovering more than a decade after his death. Brian Herbert and Anderson have written two preliminary trilogy ( Prelude to Dune and Legends of Dune ) exploring the history of the universe Dune before the events inside > Dune , as well as two posthouse - Babhouse Dune novels that complement the original series ( Dune Hunter and Sandworm of Dune i) based on Frank Herbert himself Dune 7 outline.

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See also

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References

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Further reading

• Allen, L. David. Cliffs Notes in Dune & amp; Herbert Karya Lain . Lincoln, NE: Cliffs Notes, 1975. ISBNÃ, 0-8220-1231-6
• Clarke, Jason. SparkNotes: Dune, Frank Herbert . New York: Spark Publishing, 2002. ISBNÃ, 1-58663-510-7
• Grazier, Kevin R. The Science of Dune . Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, 2008. ISBNÃ, 1-933771-28-3
• Herbert, Brian. Dreamer Dune: Frank Herbert Biography . New York: Tor Books, 2003. ISBNÃ, 0-765-30646-8
• Levack, Daniel JH; Willard, Mark. Dune Master: A Frank Herbert Bibliography . Westport, CT: Meckler, 1988. ISBNÃ, 0-88736-099-8
• McNelly, Dr. Willis E. (ed.) Dune Encyclopedia . New York: Berkeley Publishing Group, 1984. ISBNÃ, 0-425-06813-7
• Miller, David M. Starmont's Reader's Guide 5: Frank Herbert . Mercer Island, WA: Starmont, 1980. ISBNÃ, 0-916732-16-9
• O'Reilly, Timothy. Frank Herbert . New York: Frederick Ungar, 1980.
• O'Reilly, Timothy (ed.) Dune Maker . New York: Berkeley Publishing Group, 1987.

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External links

• Official website for Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson
• Frank Herbert SF Hall of Fame induction (report Kevin Anderson with his speech)
• "Biography of Frank Herbert". Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame .
• Interviewer: Paul Turner (October 1973). "Vertex Interview, Frank Herbert". Volume 1, Issue 4.
• 1984 interview with L. A. Reader : part 1, 2, 3

Biography and criticism

• Biography of Frank Herbert in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• The Arab and Islamic themes in Frank Herbert's novel Dune
• Study by Tim O'Reilly about Frank Herbert's work down to Jesus Incident ; one of the more in-depth studies on Frank Herbert's thoughts and ideas.
• An inspiration article for Dune
• "Frank Herbert, the Dune Man" - (Frederik Pohl)
  • "Frank Herbert, the Dune Man, Part 2"

Bibliography and function

• The works of Frank Herbert at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Frank Herbert in the Internet Archive
• Works by Frank Herbert on LibriVox (public domain audiobook)
• Frank Herbert on the Internet Speculative Internet Fiction
• Frank Herbert in Internet Books List
• Frank Herbert in Book Book Fiction Database
• Frank Herbert on Goodreads
• The work by Frank Herbert in the Open Library
• Frank Herbert at the Library of Congress Authorities, with 69 catalog records

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