Dune

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Author: Frank Herbert
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: 09/01/1990
Pages: 896
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.50h x 4.20w x 2.10d
ISBN: 9780441172719

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.7
Point Value: 28
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 18556 / Dune

About the Author
Frank Herbert is the bestselling author of the Dune saga. He was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs--including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter and editor of several West Coast newspapers--before becoming a full-time writer.

In 1952, Herbert began publishing science fiction with "Looking for Something?" in Startling Stories. But his emergence as a writer of major stature did not occur until 1965, with the publication of Dune. Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune followed, completing the saga that the Chicago Tribune would call "one of the monuments of modern science fiction." Herbert is also the author of some twenty other books, including The White Plague, The Dosadi Experiment, and Destination: Void. He died in 1986.