Frenk Gerbert

FRANK HERBERT was an American science-fiction writer best known as the author of the Dune Chronicles cycle, especially the first novel in the series, Dune. The Dune saga, set in the distant future and spanning five millennia, raises such questions as the survival of humanity through evolution, environmental issues, and the interaction of religion, politics, and power. Many consider this cycle a classic of science fiction.

He was born in Tacoma and graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle. After that, he worked as a reporter and editor for several newspapers on the U.S. West Coast and taught at a university. For some time he served as an environmental consultant for the Lincoln Foundation, and also served in Vietnam and Pakistan.

His first published science-fiction work was the short story “Looking for Something?”, published in Startling Stories in 1952, when the writer was already thirty-two years old. Throughout the 1950s he published about a dozen and a half short stories in magazines and the novel The Dragon in the Sea (1955). This novel was later also published under the title Under Pressure. However, the writer gained wide recognition after the 1963 publication in Analog of the novel Dune World, which became the first part of Dune. Later, a continuation titled Prophet of Dune began serialization in the same magazine. In 1965 these two parts were combined into one complete novel, which was released as a separate edition. The work received worldwide recognition and was awarded such prestigious science-fiction prizes as the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. The novel quickly became one of the most popular science-fiction novels of the 20th century. In the following years, Herbert continued to write sequels to the story of the desert planet.

As a child, Frank Herbert always loved to read. He loved the books of H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. On his eighth birthday, Frank announced at the праздничном table: “I’m going to be a writer.” And so it was.

Frank always wanted to study what interested him. For many years he had a difficult time, changing jobs and moving from city to city. Herbert was so independent that he refused to write for a particular market. He wrote only what he wanted to write. To finish such a multilayered and complex