Frank Herbert #Birthday
Science-fiction author Frank Herbert was born this day in 1920 (d 11.02.86). Considered to be an important 20th century author, with Dune his best known work selling over 12 million copies worldwide. This is what the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has to say about Dune:
"With its blend (or sometimes clash) of complex intellectual discourse and Byzantine intrigue, Dune provided a template for FH's more significant later works. Sequels soon began to appear which carried on the arguments of the original in testingly various manners and with an intensity of discourse seldom encountered in the sf field. Dune Messiah (1969) elaborates the intrigue at the cost of other elements, but Children of Dune (1976) recaptures much of the strength of the o
Original work and addresses another recurrent theme in FH's work - the evolution of Man, in this case into SUPERMAN;..." "Frank Herbert," The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.