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. As a child growing up in Washington State, Frank Herbert was curious about everything. It has been translated into dozens of languages and has sold almost 20 million copies. 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. Frank Herbert (1920-1986) created the most beloved novel in the annals of science fiction, Dune.

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