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Introduction (Eye) 1985 It was a happy time, an educational time and I was utterly fascinated with making a film of my novel, Dune. Early in the experience, I reverted to my background as an investigative reporter. What you read here is editorial comment (subjective) and reportage (as objective as ...

When I was writing Dune... [/i] . . . there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned req...

Dune Genesis by Frank Herbert July 1980 // Omni Magazine Dune began with a concept whose mostly unfleshed images took shape across about six years of research and one and a half years of writing. The story was all in my head until it appeared on paper as I typed it out. How did it evolve? I conceiv...

Listening to the Left Hand When I was young and my world was dominated by indestructible adults, I learned an ancient way of thinking that is as dangerous as a rotten board in a stepladder. It told me that the only valuable things were those that I could hold unchanged: the love of a wise grandfath...

1971 Frank Herbert CARTHAGE : REFLECTIONS OF A MARTIAN Thy expected alien Am I, Weird of shade And doomfire face: All thy senses Cry to my Mourning mysteries Which yesterday Were commonplace. We sit at Sunday breakfast And I smell the dust of Carthage, It drowns the spang Of our automatic toaster. ...

Mother Earth News: May/June 1981 The Plowboy Interview: Frank Herbert By the Mother Earth News editors SCIENCE FICTION'S "YELLOW JOURNALIST" IS A HOMESTEADING "TECHNOPEASANT" By profession, Frank Herbert is a science fiction author . . . and quite a successful one at that. Indeed...

Frank Herbert interviewed by Peter Sean MacKenzie [unpublished interview] 16 January 1977 // at Frank Herbert's home, Port Townsend, Washington (To photographer Don Anderson:) I have a superb 43-86 zoom that would fit that camera. I picked it up in {....}. I shot a roll with 12 lenses, selecting nu...

Vertex Interview: Frank Herbert by Paul Turner October 1973 : Volume 1, Issue 4 VERTEX: What got you started in science fiction? HERBERT: Well, I didn't cut my teeth on science fiction. I began reading science fiction, I would guess, in the forties, the early forties. I'd been reading science ficti...

California State College, Fullerton Interviewer : Professor Willis E. McNelly (WM) Interviewees: Frank Herbert (FH), Beverly Herbert (BH) Subject: "Dune" and "Dune Messiah" Date of Tape : 3 February 1969 Date of Transcription : February-April 1970 WM: This tape recording is bein...