He did not graduate from college because he refused to take the required courses for a major he only wanted to study what interested him. His curiosity and independent spirit got him into trouble more than once when he was growing up, and caused him difficulties as an adult as well.
If his classmates wanted to know the answer to something, such as about sexual functions or how to make a carbide cannon, they would invariably say, "Let's ask Herbert. 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:224406746 Scandate 20110826052040 Scanner Herbert (1920-1986) created the most beloved novel in the annals of science fiction, Dune. OL893415W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 97.26 Pages 550 Ppi 350 Related-external-id urn:isbn:8484504085 Urn:lcp:dune000herb:epub:384d907f-29ab-426e-bc78-9d4270da1f42 Extramarc The Indiana University Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier dune000herb Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t51g1nf2b Isbn 9780441172719Ġ441172717 Lccn 94001567 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary OL22597282M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:18:55 Boxid IA141712 Boxid_2 CH100601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0001 Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition Special 25th anniversary ed.
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