In grade school he was the acknowledged authority on everything. A kid that small shouldn't be so smart." Young Frank was not unlike Alia in Dune, a person having adult comprehension in a child's body. On his eighth birthday, Frank stood on top of the breakfast table at his family home and announced, "I wanna be a author." His maternal grandfather, John McCarthy, said of the boy, "It's frightening. Wells, Jules Verne, and the science fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs. He loved Rover Boys adventures, as well as the stories of H.G. He carried around a Boy Scout pack with books in it, and he was always reading. It has been translated into dozens of languages and has sold almost 20 million copies.Īs a child growing up in Washington State, Frank Herbert was curious about everything. Today the novel is more popular than ever, with new readers continually discovering it and telling their friends to pick up a copy. His magnum opus is a reflection of this, a classic work that stands as one of the most complex, multi-layered novels ever written in any genre. He was a man of many facets, of countless passageways that ran through an intricate mind.
Urn:oclc:812065738 Republisher_date 20120323133403 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120321215610 Scanner Herbert (1920-1986) created the most beloved novel in the annals of science fiction, Dune. OL893517W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 97.06 Pages 342 Ppi 643 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1429598948 Urn:lcp:dunemessiahdunec00fran:epub:06c1387a-cdec-42dd-99aa-a7dd15287c23 Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier dunemessiahdunec00fran Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9087c16k Isbn 0441172695ĩ780441172696 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL7525229M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:02:44 Boxid IA139801 Boxid_2 CH105101 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Date-raw JDonorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Ace ed.
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