title: The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction
author:  Frank Herbert 
description: Herbert, who died a year ago, wrote two collections of short stories and 22 novels, including the immensely popular, six-part Dune series. However, his short nonfiction essaysculled from newspaper features, correspondence, interviews, introductions to science-fiction anthologies and record-liner noteshave remained uncollected until now. Stimulating, cogent and thought-provoking, these pieces cover much of the same ground as Herbert's fictiondemonstrating his interest in ecology, the future, religion and the consequences of scienceand thus provide clues, as O'Reilly notes, to "the myriad threads that make up the cloth on which Frank's stories are so lavishly embroidered." One section is devoted to "The Origins of Dune," and the book includes a complete Herbert bibliography. <br />Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Road to Dune
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Herbert, Brian Anderson, Kevin J. Herbert, Frank
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Macmillan (2006)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  SUMMARY:  
  Frank Herbert's Duneis widely known as the science fiction equivalent of The
  Lord of the Rings.Now The Road to Duneis a companion work comparable to The
  Silmarillion,shedding light on and following the remarkable development of the
  bestselling science fiction novel of all time. In this fascinating volume, the
  world's millions of Dunefans can read--at long last--the unpublished chapters
  and scenes from Duneand Dune Messiah. The Road to Dunealso includes some of
  the original correspondence between Frank Herbert and famed editor John W.
  Campbell, Jr., along with other correspondence during Herbert's years-long
  struggle to get his innovative work published, and the article "They Stopped
  the Moving Sands," Herbert's original inspiration for Dune. The Road to
  Dunealso features newly discovered papers and manuscripts of Frank Herbert,
  and Sp