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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-007.mrc:455103470:2693
Source marc_columbia
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001 3443769
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008 021108s2003 nyuacf b 001 0beng
010 $a 2002042951
020 $a0765306468 (acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm51040937
035 $9AVT3679CU
035 $a(NNC)3443769
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050 00 $aPS3558.E63$bZ68 2003
082 00 $a813/.54$aB$221
100 1 $aHerbert, Brian.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84152620
245 10 $aDreamer of Dune :$bthe biography of Frank Herbert /$cBrian Herbert.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bTor,$c2003.
300 $a576 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 537-562) and index.
520 1 $a"Though he is best remembered for Dune, Frank Herbert was the author of more than twenty books at the time of his tragic death in 1986, including such classic novels as The Green Brain, The Santaroga Barrier, The White Plague, and The Dosadi Experiment.".
520 8 $a"Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert'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 Herbert's life that would find their way into speculative fiction's greatest epic.".
520 8 $a"From his early years in Tacoma, Washington, and his education in the navy and at the University of Washington, Seattle, through the years of trying his hand as a TV cameraman, radio commentator, reporter, and editor of several West Coast newspapers, to the difficult years of poverty while struggling to become a published writer, Herbert worked long and hard before finding success after the publication of Dune in 1965.
520 8 $aBrian Herbert writes about these years with a truthful intensity that brings every facet of his father's brilliant, and sometimes troubled, genius to full light."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aHerbert, Frank.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80044450
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100576
650 0 $aScience fiction$xAuthorship.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111319
650 0 $aDune (Imaginary place)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92003142
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002042951.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3558.E63$iZ68 2003