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.
zlib_text: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  While we are busy writing new novels in the incredible Dune universe, many
  other people contribute to what the reader sees on the printed page. We would
  like to thank Tor Books, Simon & Schuster U.K., WordFire Inc., the Frank
  Herbert family, Trident Media Group, New Amsterdam Entertainment, and Misher
  Films for their contributions and support. As always, we are especially
  grateful to Frank Herbert, who left the most remarkable literary legacy in all
  of science fiction, and to Beverly Herbert, who devoted so much of her own
  talents and energy to the success of the series.
  
  
  To the Fremen, he is the Messiah;
  
  
  To the vanquished, he is the Tyrant;
  
  
  To the Bene Gesserit, he is the Kwisatz Haderach; But Paul is my son and
  always will be, no matter how far he falls.
  
  
  -LADY JESSICA, Duchess of Caladan
  
  
  The Emperor Paul-Muad'Dib survived a major assassination attempt when a stone-
  burner robbed him of his eyesight. Though blind, he could see the cracks in
  his empire, the p