Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
About this audiobook
Everyone knows Frank Herbert’s Dune.
This amazing and complex epic, combining politics, religion, human evolution, and ecology, has captured the imagination of generations of readers. One of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, winning awards, selling millions of copies around the world. In the prophetic year of 1984, Dune was made into a motion picture directed by David Lynch, and it has recently been produced as a three-part miniseries on the Sci-Fi Channel. Though he is best remembered for Dune, Frank Herbert was the author of more than twenty books at the time of his tragic death in 1986, including such classic novels as The Green Brain, The Santaroga Barrier, The White Plague, and Dosadi Experiment.
Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert’s eldest son, tells the provocative story of his father’s extraordinary life in this honest and loving chronicle. He has also brought to light all the events in Herbert’s life that would find their way into speculative fiction’s greatest epic.
From his early years in Tacoma, Washington, and his education at the University of Washington, Seattle, and in the Navy, through the years of trying his hand as a TV cameraman, radio commentator, reporter, and editor of several West Coast newspaper, to the difficult years of poverty while struggling to become a published writer, Herbert worked long and hard before finding success after the publication of Dune in 1965. Brian Herbert writes about these years with a truthful intensity that brings every facet of his father’s brilliant—and sometimes troubled—genius to full light.
Insightful and provocative, this absorbing biography offers Brian Herbert’s unique personal perspective on one of the most enigmatic and creative talents of our time.
About the author
Brian Herbert is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers and has been nominated for the highest awards in science fiction. In 2003, he published Dreamer of Dune, a moving biography of his father Frank Herbert that was a Hugo Award finalist. Together with co-author Kevin J. Anderson, Brian has written over a dozen bestselling titles set in the Dune universe created by his father, Frank.
Scott Brick has narrated bestsellers and Pulitzer Prize winners for every major publisher, over 1000 titles since his debut in 1999, including Jurassic Park, The Hunt for Red October, In Cold Blood, and many more. In addition to two Grammy nominations, eight Voice Arts Awards, and over sixty Earphones Awards, he’s also received seven Audie Awards, including two for his work on the Dune saga. In 2004, AudioFile magazine named Brick “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy,” and in 2017 he was an inaugural inductee into Audible’s Hall of Fame.
