Works by
Frank Herbert
(Writer)
[October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986]

Audio

• The Dune Trilogy Soundbook (1979)
  4 Audio Cassettes: 1. Banquet Scene; 2. Sandworms of Dune; 3. Battles of Dune; 4. Truthes of Dune

Fiction

• The Ascension Factor (1988) with Bill Ransom

• Man of Two Worlds (1986) with Brian Herbert

• Lazarus Effect (1983) with Bill Ransom

• The White Plague (1982)
  What if women were an endangered species?
  
  It begins in Ireland, but soon spreads throughout the entire world: a virulent new disease expressly designed to target only women. As fully half of the human race dies off at a frightening pace and life on Earth faces extinction, panicked people and governments struggle to cope with the global crisis. Infected areas are quarantined or burned to the ground. The few surviving women are locked away in hidden reserves, while frantic doctors and scientists race to find a cure. Anarchy and violence consume the planet.
  
  The plague is the work of a solitary individual who calls himself the Madman. As government security forces feverishly hunt for the renegade scientist, he wanders incognito through a world that will never be the same. Society, religion, and morality are all irrevocably transformed by the White Plague.

• Direct Descent (1980)
  Originally serialized as "Packrat Planet" in Astounding Magazine December 1954.

• Jesus Incident (1979) with Bill Ransom
  A determined group of colonists are attempting to establish a bridgehead on the planet Pandora, despite the savagery of the native lifeforms, as deadly as they are inhospitable. But they have more to deal with than just murderous aliens: their ship’s computer has been given artificial consciousness and has decided that it is a God. Now it is insisting - with all the not inconsiderable force of its impressive array of armaments to back it up - that the colonists find appropriate ways to worship It.

• The Dosadi Experiment (1977)
  Serialized in Galaxy Magazine May – August 1977 "The Dosadi.



Beyond the God WallGenerations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, conditioned by constant hunger and war-this is the Dosadi Experiment, and it has succeeded too well. For the Dosadi have bred for Vengeance as well as cunning, and they have learned how to pass through the shimmering God Wall to exact their dreadful revenge on the Universe that created them . . .

• Hellstrom's Hive (1973) -- Winner of the 1978 Prix Apollo
  Serialized as "Project 40" in Galaxy Magazine November 1972 – March 1973.



In Hellstroms Hive, Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology has never been more evident. America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world insects. When the Agency discovered that Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40 was a cover for a secret laboratory, a special team of agents was immediately dispatched to discover its true purpose and its weaknesses it could not be allowed to continue. What they discovered was a nightmare more horrific and hideous than even their paranoid government minds could devise.

• The Godmakers (1972)
  Serialized in Astounding Magazine as "You Take the High Road"  May 1958; as "Missing Link" February 1959; and "Operation Haystack"  May 1959 and "The Priests of Psi" in Fantastic Magazine February 1960.

• The Santaroga Barrier (1968)
  Serialiazed in Amazing Magazine October 1967 – February 1968.



Santaroga seemed to be nothing more than a prosperous farm community. But there was something . . . different . . . about Santaroga.Santaroga had no juvenile delinquency, or any crime at all. Outsiders found no house for sale or rent in this valley, and no one ever moved out. No one bought cigarettes in Santaroga. No cheese, wine, beer or produce from outside the valley could be sold there. The list went on and on and grew stranger and stranger.Maybe Santaroga was the last outpost of American individualism. Maybe they were just a bunch of religious kooks. . . .Or maybe there was something extraordinary at work in Santaroga. Something far more disturbing than anyone could imagine.

• Soul Catcher (1972)

• Whipping Star (1970)
  Serialized in Worlds of If Magazine January – April 1970.

• The Heaven Makers(1968)
  Serialized in Amazing Magazine April – June 1967.

• The Eyes of Heisenberg (1966)
  Serialized in Galaxy Magazine as "Heisenberg's Eyes" June – August 1966.



A New World in EmbryoPublic Law 10927 was clear and direct. Parents were permitted to watch the genetic alterations of their gametes by skilled surgeons . . . only no one ever requested it.When Lizbeth and Harvey Durant decided to invoke the Law; when Dr. Potter did not rearrange the most unusual genetic structure of their future son, barely an embryo growing in the State's special vat-the consequences of these decisions threatened to be catastrophic.For never before had anyone dared defy the Rulers' decrees . . . and if They found out, it was well known that the price of disobedience was the extermination of the human race . . .

• Destination  (1966, 1978)
  Serialized in Galaxy Magazine as "Do I Wake or Dream" August 1965.

• The Green Brain (1966)
  Serialized in Amazing, Magazine as "Greenslaves" March 1965.



In an overpopulated world seeking living room in the jungles, the International Ecological Organization was systematically exterminating the voracious insects which made these areas uninhabitable. Using deadly foamal bombs and newly developed vibration weapons, men like Joao Martinho and his co-workers fought to clear the green hell of the Mato Grosso.  But somehow those areas which had been completely cleared were becoming reinfested, despite the impenetrable vibration barriers. And tales came out of the jungles . . . of insects mutated to incredible sizes . . . of creatures who seemed to be men, but whose eyes gleamed with the chitinous sheen of insects. . . .A fascinating examination of the fragile balance between consciousness, man and insect from one of the best-loved science fiction creators of all time.

• The Dragon in the Sea (1956)
  Also known as Under Pressure and 21st Century Sub
  Serialized in Astounding Magazine November 1955 – January 1956.
  
  In the endless war between East and West, oil has become the ultimate prize. Nuclear-powered subtugs brave enemy waters to tap into hidden oil reserves beneath the East’s continental shelf. But the last twenty missions have never returned. Have sleeper agents infiltrated the elite submarine service, or are the crews simply cracking under the pressure?
  
  Psychologist John Ramsay has gone undercover aboard a Hell Diver subtug. His mission is to covertly observe the remainder of the four-man crew—and find the traitor among them. Sabotage and suspicion soon plague the mission, as Ramsay discovers that the stress of fighting a war a mile and a half under the ocean exposes every weakness in a man. Hunted relentlessly by the enemy, the four men find themselves isolated in a claustrophobic undersea prison, struggling for survival against the elements . . . and themselves.

Collections (Short Fiction)

• Eye (1985) with Jim Burns, Illustrator
  Eye features the startlingly original collaboration "The Road to Dune," a walking tour of Arakeen narrated by Frank Herbert and illustrated by acclaimed British artist Jim Burns. Also included is an introduction by Herbert describing his personal feelings about the filming of David Lynch's movie version of Dune; Herbert's own favorite short story, "Seed Stock"; and tales from throughout his career, some never before collected.

• The Priests of Psi (1980)

• The Best of Frank Herbert (1975)

• The Book of Frank Herbert(1973)

• The Worlds of Frank Herbert (1970)

Dune Series

1. Dune (1965) -- Winner first Nebula Award; Co-winner Hugo Award.
   Serialized in Analog Magazine. Part 1 ("Dune World") from December 1963 – February 1964; and Parts 2 and 3 ("The Prophet of Dune") from January – May 1965.
   
   Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
   
   A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. Frank Herbert's death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever.
   Movie (1984): DVD  VHS
   TV Miniseries (2000): DVD  VHS

2. Dune Messiah (1970)
   Serialized in Galaxy Magazine July – November 1969.
   
   The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! This second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. DUNE MESSIAH picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men. But the question is: Do all paths of glory lead to the grave?

3. Children of Dune (1976)
   Serialized in Analog Magazine January – April 1976.
   
   The desert planet has begun to grow green and lush.  The life-giving spice is abundant.  The nine-year-old royal twins, possessing their father's supernormal powers, are being groomed as Messiahs. 
   
   But there are those who think the Imperium does not need Messiahs ...
   TV Mini Series (2003); DVD  VHS

4. God Emperor of Dune (1981)
   With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the imagination. Of them all,God Emperor of Dune, the fourth, is the greatest and the grandest. Centuries have passed on Dune itself, and the planet is green with life. Leto II, the son of Dune's savior, is still alive but far from human. He has become a human-sandworm creature, ruling over his angry and frustrated empire with his vast legions of Fish Speaker soldiers, enforcing peace for dozens of generations to teach the universe a lesson, while also waiting for the right time to turn Dune back into a desert planet. The fate of all humanity hangs on Leto's awesome sacrifice.

5. Heretics of Dune (1984)
   On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, ten times ten centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying, and the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilax struggle to direct the future of Dune. The children of Dune's children awaken as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love.

6. Chapterhouse Dune (1985)
   The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's powers, have colonized a green world and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. In this, the final book in the Dune Chronicles, Herbert again creates a world of breathtakingly evolved characters and the contexts in which to appreciate them. The richness of detail and perspective fascinates, while the multi-layered plot evolves as pages turn. Riveting from end to end, the legend lives on in the greatest science fiction epic of all time.

• The Road to Dune (2005) by Frank Herbert with Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
  Including never-before-published chapters from Dune and Dune Messiah, original stories, and a new short novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.  Frank Herbert's Dune is widely known as the science fiction equivalent of The Lord of the Rings, and The Road to Dune is a companion work comparable to J.R.R. Tolkein's The Silmarillion,  shedding light on and following the remarkable development of the bestselling science fiction novel of all time. Herein, the world's millions of Dune fans can now read---at long last---the unpublished chapters and scenes from Dune and Dune Messiah. The Road to Dune also includes the original correspondence between Frank Herbert and famed editor John W. Campbell, Jr.; excerpts from Herbert's correspondence during his years-long struggle to get his innovative work published; and the article "They Stopped the Moving Sands," Herbert's original inspiration for Dune. The Road to Dune features newly discovered papers and manuscripts of Frank Herbert, and also "Spice Planet," an original sixty-thousand-word short novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, based on a detailed outline left by Frank Herbert.The Road to Dune is a treasure trove of essays, articles, and fiction that every reader of Dune will want to add to their shelf.

• Hunters of Dune (2006) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
  Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in a safe-deposit box for a decade, these two volumes will finally answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades.At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune-Frank Herbert's final novel--a ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The nearly invincible Honored Matres have swarmed into the known universe, driven from their home by a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. As designed by the creative genius of Frank Herbert, the primary story of Hunters and Sandworms is the exotic odyssey of Duncan's no-ship as it is forced to elude the diabolical traps set by the ferocious, unknown Enemy. To strengthen their forces, the fugitives have used genetic technology from Scytale, the last Tleilaxu Master, to revive key figures from Dune's past-including Paul Muad'Dib and his beloved Chani, Lady Jessica, Stilgar, Thufir Hawat, and even Dr. Wellington Yueh. Each of these characters will use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them.Failure is unthinkable--not only is their survival at stake, but they hold the fate of the entire human race in their hands.

Non-fiction

• Without Me, You're Nothing: The Essential Guide To Home Computers (1981) with Max Barnard

• Threshold: The Blue Angels Experience (1973) with John F. Ellingson, Photographer
  The text and color photos from the motion picture.

  • Threshold: Blue Angels Experience (DVD)

  • Threshold; Blue Angels Experience (VHS)

• New World or No World (1970), Frank Herbert, ed.
  Our ecology crisis and what to do about it as analyzed during Earth Week on NBC's Today Show.

Other

• The Notebooks of Frank Herbert's Dune (1988) by Frank Herbert with Brian Herbert, ed. and Raquel Jaramillo, Illustrator

• Mars, We Love You (1971), Jane Hipolito and Willis E. McNelly, eds.
  See "Carthage: Reflections of a Martian".

See also:

• The Science of Dune: An Unauthorized Exploration into the Real Science behind Frank Herbert's Fictional Universe (2008) by Kevin R. Grazier
  With Sandworms of Dune—the last title in the bestselling Dune science fiction series—due to be released in August 2007, sci-fi fans wanting to brush up on their Dune trivia and analyze the books from a fresh viewpoint will be able to do so with this definitive reference. Delving into the world of Dune, this guide offers fascinating scientific speculation on topics including physics, chemistry, ecology, evolution, psychology, technology, and genetics. It also scrutinizes Frank Herbert’s science fiction world by asking questions such as Is the ecology of Dune realistic? Is it theoretically possible to get information from the future? Could humans really evolve as Herbert suggests? and Which of Herbert’s inventions have already come to life? This companion to the Dune series is a must-have for any fan who wants to revisit this science fiction world and explore it even further.

• Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert (2003) by Brian Herbert
  Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. One of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, Dune has become a worldwide phenomenon, winning awards and selling millions of copies. Brian Herbert, Frank'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 Frank's life that found their way into speculative fiction's greatest epic. From his early years in Tacoma, Washington, and his education in the Navy and at the University of Washington, Seattle, through the difficult years of trying his hand as a TV cameraman, radio commentator, reporter, and editor of several West Coast newspapers, Frank Herbert worked long and hard before finding success. Brian Herbert writes about his father's life with a truthful intensity that brings every facet of the man's brilliant, and sometimes troubled, genius to full light. Insightful and provocative, containing family photos never published anywhere, this absorbing biography offers Brian Herbert's unique personal perspective on one of the most enigmatic and creative talents of our time.

• Spark Notes: Dune -- Frank Herbert, (2002) by Jason Clarke

• The Secrets Of Frank Herbert'S Dune (2000) by James Van Hise and Michael D. Messina
  The Secrets The Secrets of Frank Herbert's Dune is a dazzling book-and-DVD treasury of behind-the-scenes production stills, interviews, video clips and drawings -- many exclusive to this edition.
  
  On an exclusive footage-packed DVD designed especially for this book, The Secrets of Frank Herbert's Dune shows you why The SCI FI Channel gave the mini-series the biggest production budget in its history!

• Dune Master: A Frank Herbert Bibliography (1988) by Daniel JH Levack and Mark Willard
  A bibliography of all Frank Herbert's work up until early 1987, including foreign language publications, fiction and non-fiction works, verse, film and sound recordings, newspaper articles and collaborations. Also included are illustrations of various citations, and lengthy analytical introductions.

• Frank Herbert: The Maker of Dune (1985), Timothy O'Reilly, ed.

• The Dune Encyclopedia: The Complete, Authorized Guide and Companion to Frank Herbert's Masterpiece of the Imagination (1984), Dr. Willis E. McNelly, compiler and editor

• Frank Herbert (1980) by David M Miller

• Frank Herbert (1980) by Timothy O'Reilly

• Cliffsnotes Dune and Other Works (1975) by David L. Allen