Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science-fiction author, best known for his 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels. He also wrote short stories and worked as a newspaper journalist, photographer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and lecturer.
Dune is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time, and the series is a classic of the science-fiction genre. The series has been adapted numerous times, including the feature film David Lynch's Dune (1984), the miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune (2000) and Children of Dune (2003), and a motion picture trilogy currently in production, with Denis Villeneuve's Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024) having been released.
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- OLID: OL79034A
- Amazon ID: B000APO5OM
- BookBrainz: 22d93ec7-ee1e-4034-9453-8c1103b98dc0
- GoodReads: 58
- ISNI: 0000000121347853
- Integrated Authority File (GND): 118897772
- IMDb: nm0378541
- Inventaire: wd:Q7934
- Library of Congress Names: n80044450
- LibraryThing: herbertfrank
- LibriVox: 50
- MusicBrainz: 61ab2306-3f9b-431d-97b1-39868b1b351b
- Project Gutenberg: 25754
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV006318
- Storygraph: 8d85ae8e-9ec7-4efe-9d87-ee53feb2f542
- VIAF: 59083797
- Wikidata: Q7934
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- Herbert, Frank
- herbert-frank
- Herbert Frank
- Frank Herbert Dost Korpe
- Franck Herbert
- F Herbert
- F. Herbert
- Herbert, F.
- フランク・ハーバート
- 法蘭克 赫伯特
- Фрэнк Герберт
- herbert frank
- Frank, Herbert novelist
- frank herbert
- FRANK HERBERT
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