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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  # PRAISE FOR THE DUNE CHRONICLES
  
  
  DUNE
  
  
  “An astonishing science fiction phenomenon.”
  
  
  — _The Washington Post_
  
  
  “Powerful, convincing, and most ingenious.”
  
  
  —Robert A. Heinlein
  
  
  “Herbert’s creation of this universe, with its intricate development and
  analysis of ecology, religion, politics, and philosophy, remains one of the
  supreme and seminal achievements in science fiction.”
  
  
  — _The Louisville Times_
  
  
  “One of the landmarks of modern science fiction. . . . An amazing feat of
  creation.”
  
  
  —P. Schuyler Miller
  
  
  DUNE MESSIAH
  
  
  “Brilliant. . . . It is all that _Dune_ was, and maybe a little more.”
  
  
  — _Galaxy Magazine_
  
  
  “The perfect companion piece to _Dune_. . . . Fascinating.”
  
  
  — _Challenging Destiny_
  
  
  CHILDREN OF DUNE
  
  
  “A major event.”
  
  
  — _Los Angeles Times_
  
  
  “Ranging from palace intrigue and desert chases to religious speculation and
  confrontations with the supreme intelligence of 