The Dragon in the Sea

Frank Hebert (1920-1986)

Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1920 and worked as a reporter, and later editor, of a number of West Coast newspapers before becoming a full-time writer. His first Science Fiction story was published in 1952 but he achieved fame more than ten years later with the publication in Analog of Dune World and The Prophet of Dune, which were amalgamated into the novel Dune in 1965. Winner of both the Nebula and the Hugo awards, it is the best selling SF novel of all time.

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