THE BOOK OF FRANK HERBERT

Panther paperback, 1977. Cover by Peter Jones.

Rear cover/synopsis.

FRANK HERBERT: EYE

NEL paperback, 1988. Cover artwork by Jim Burns.

Rear cover, synopsis, etc.

Portrait of Irulan, interior illustration from The Road To Dune by Jim Burns.

Portrait of Duncan Idaho, interior illustration from The Road To Dune by Jim Burns.

DUNE MESSIAH

Berkley Medallion paperback, 1970. Cover by Jack Gaughan.

GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE

Putnam books hardback, 1981. Cover by Brad Holland.

HERETICS OF DUNE

Cover by Abe Echevarria.

"From Dune to Rakis to Dune, the wheel turns full circle. From burning desert to green and fertile land and on again to burning desert, the cycle is complete. The people of the scattering are returning. Amongst them, mysterious and threatening, are the women who call themselves the Honoured Matres, adepts of an ecstatic cult. And on Rakis, become Dune, an ancient prophecy is fulfilled with the coming of the she-seer, Sheena."

FRANK HERBERT: THE EYES OF HEISENBERG

Sphere SF paperback, 1968. Cover photograph by David Davies.

Rear-cover synopsis: 

"In the age of the Optiman genetic surgeons tamper with the gametes of unborn children in the hospital vats. From time to time they achieve the miracle known as the Optiman - a human being whose tissues never wear out, an immortal. 

There is one drawback: The Optimen are not viable - they cannot breed. The ability to reproduce is confined to a small minority of ordinary mortals. The hospitals are supervised by an all powerful security force to stop this minority from growing beyond the limits decreed by the Optimen. 

Then Dr. Potter presides at the 'cutting' of a very special embryo; to ensure its destruction, the Optimen are prepared to destroy a whole city."

THE DUNE STORYBOOK

Sphere paperback, 1984.

Its surface is barren.

Its true strength hidden.

Its foreboding desert conceals the power to fold space, to slow time, to send the mind where the body cannot go.

It is the source of the ultimate power.

It is the deadly battleground where a young leader will emerge to command an army of six million warriors against the tyrannical force that threatens to enslave the universe.

It is the clash for the greatest prize of all...

The planet called Dune.

The third-stage Guild Navigator.

Who had this book as a child? I did. I don't recall ever reading it but essentially the text is adapted from David Lynch's screenplay - it's nothing special, really, and is obviously targeted at children (which I always found odd as here in the UK the film had a 15 certificate) but it does have some nice production photographs and stills to illustrate the story. Strangely, Joan D. Vinge is credited as writing it, so I can only surmise that she was strapped for cash in the 1980s.

The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

The Beast Rabban.

Alia Atreides.

THE JESUS INCIDENT

Orbit paperback, 1980. Cover by Tim White.

"A small group of human colonists are engaged in a desperate struggle for survival. 

Ranged against them, the planet PANDORA, its native life-forms as malevolent and savage as they are murderous. And SHIP, their ship-board computer, who knows that it is a GOD, and - on pain of destruction - demands their worship."

THE PRIESTS OF PSI

Orbit paperback, 1981. Cover by Tim White.

"A PSYCHIC PARASITE WHO HIJACKS PERSONALITIES. 

A COUPLE WHO DISCOVER THE HOUSE OF THEIR DREAMS...IN THE WRONG DIMENSION. 

THE PRIESTS OF PSI, CUSTODIANS OF A FORGOTTEN WISDOM WHICH MAY EXALT OR DAMN MANKIND COMPLETELY. 

Frank Herbert needs no introduction to the million readers of the DUNE trilogy, THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT and THE JESUS INCIDENT. In this, the first collection of short stories for some time, the inventive genius of the novels is powerfully evident."

Contents:

Try To Remember

Old Rambling House

Murder Will In

Mindfield

The Priests of Psi

THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT

Futura paperback, 1979. Cover illustration by Terry Oakes.

"THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT: Frank Herbert's new novel, a swirling, vividly complex story set on the most alien and challenging world he has yet created - a brutal prison planet where 850 million beings are confined in 40 square kilometres. 

THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT: a stunning evocation of alien cultures, and of an experiment so monstrous it threatens the entire galaxy."

GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE

NEL paperback, reprint, May 1984. Illustration: Bruce Pennignton.

"More than three thousand years have passed since the events recorded in Dune and its sequels. Arrakis, once a barren desert planet, is now a green and hospitable world. Gone are the giant sandworms that once roamed its surface. 

One link only survives between the present and the epic past. Leto Atreides, grotesque son of the prophet Paul-Muad'Dib, virtualyl immortal and God Emperor of the galaxy. In the far past of his childhood his symbiosis with the larval sandworms had brought about his slow metamorphosis into a strange creature, huge and recognisably human only in face and arms. 

Tyrannical and secure through his control of the spice melange supplies that confer longevity, he is a ruler with a purpose. Understanding the future he knows that  the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into the species. He knows also that these vital abilities will only prove their viability by the process of his own destruction."

THE HEAVEN MAKERS

NEL paperback, 1980 reprint. Illustration: Tim White.

"The Chems were the prisoners of eternity, gripped by the despair that immortality brought. They were strange dwellers in a timeless world, inflicting terror and suffering on the creatures they manipulated. 

Enter their world of infinite possibility and discover the fascinating secrets of a master race whose plaything is time. These are the super-beings who control men's destinies and who derive their pleasure from the pain and torture they impose on their human underlings."

THE WORLDS OF FRANK HERBERT

NEL paperback, 1970. Cover art by Jan Parker.

"An infinity of universes each with its own strange stories. A future where they have space suits with chastity belts. A planet where they have a new thrill - but will it ever replace sex? A good government must work - but, what happens if it works too well? The phobias of today translated into the fears of tomorrow. An alien culture who didn't want to change Earth; they just wanted to use it. 

Eight of the very best by the author of the mind-shattering best-seller "Dune". If you care about what's happening or what might happen - these stories are for you."

Contents:

Tactful Saboteur

Committee Of The Whole

Old Rambling House

Mating Call

A-W-F- Unlimited

The Featherbedders

The G.M Effect

Escape Felicity.

CHILDREN OF DUNE

NEL paperback, March 1978. Cover painting by
Bruce Pennington.

"Frank Herbert's Dune, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, was one of the most famous and widely read science fiction novels ever written. It was followed by the equally acclaimed Dune Messiah and now, with Children of Dune, comes the magnificent finale to this epic series. 

Old Paul Atreides, who led the Fremen to domination of the human galaxy, is gone now, and arrakis itself is slowly changing; ecological change has brought vast areas of greenery and even open water to the desert planet. But all is not well; the altered climate is threatening extinction to the sandworms which are essential to the planet's economy, and the rule of the Atreides family is being challenged by fanatics and their worst enemy, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. 

These are problems potentially far more deadly than any Paul had had to contend with. How the Children of Dune faced up to them creates an impressive climax to one of science fiction's greatest achievements."

DUNE MESSIAH

NEL paperback, August 1982 reprint. Cover painting by
Bruce Pennington.

"A holy war has made Paul Atreides the religious and political leader of a thousand planets. The malign sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit, unable to dominate the man they have made a god, set out to destroy him. 

Paul, who is able to foresee the plans of his enemies, resolves to adapt and shape them to a goal that is as shocking as it is unexpected. 

Dune Messiah - long-awaited successor to double award winner Dune - is an epic of imperial intrigue that spans the universe, rich and strange in its evocation of the history, institutions and people of a far future age."

DUNE

NEL paperback, May 1984 reprint. Cover painting by
Bruce Pennington.

"Dune is the finest, most widely acclaimed science fiction novel of this century. Huge in scope, towering in concept, it is a work which will live in the reader's imagination for the rest of his life."

THE ILLUSTRATED DUNE

Berkley Windhover paperback, August, 1978. Cover painting and interior
illustrations by John Schoenherr.

"I can envision no more perfect visual representation of my Dune world than John Schoenherr's careful and accurate illustrations." -Frank Herbert. 

Artist John Schoenherr is a winner of the Hugo award for his illustrations. He created the illustrations for the original magazine serials of Herbert's Dune trilogy, as well as the illustrations for the original hardcover and paperback editions of the work. 

Vast in its scope and power, Dune is one of the greatest imaginative achievements of all time. It charts the ecology and destiny of life on the wondrous, enigmatic planet Arrakis - a world of unforgettable people, and overpowering natural and political forces, offering the promise of immortality. 

Frank Herbert is a winner of both of science fiction's most coveted awards, the Hugo and the Nebula. 

"Unique ... In the depth of its characterization and the extraordinary detail of the world it creates. I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord Of The Rings." -Arthur C. Clarke."

"The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam sat in a tapestried chair watching mother and son approach."

 "The Baron moved out and away from the globe of Arrakis. As he emerged from the shadows, his figure took on dimension - grossly and immensely fat."

 "The door across from Paul banged open and an ugly lump of a man came through it preceded by a handful of weapons."

 "She took sheath in one hand and handle in the other, withdrew a milk-white blade, held it up."

 "Every available space in the room was crowded with exotic, wet-climate plants."

Dawn At The Palace Of Arrakeen.

Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

 "This is Stilgar, chief of the Sietch I visited, leader of those who warned us of the false band," Idaho said.

 "Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura." The Duke said. "I will, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura."

 "We waste time," the Duke said. He gestured to the waiting 'thopter, led the way, accepting the guard's salute with a nod.

 A wide hole emerged from the sand. Sunlight flashed from glistening white spokes within it. The hole's diameter was at least twice the length of the Crawler, Paul estimated. He watched as the machine slid into the opening in a billow of dust and sand.

 Kynes' thoughts were overwhelmed at last by the words of prophecy: "and they shall share your most precious dream."

 "Idaho's dark, round face was drawn into a frown. His hair, curling like the fur of a black goat, was plastered with dirt. A jagged rent in his tunic exposed an expanse of the dress shirt he had worn at the dinner party earlier."

 "Remember the tooth!" Yueh hissed. "The tooth!"

 "The Duke Leto Atreides came through the door. His arms were bound in chains, the eagle face streaked with dirt. His uniform was ripped where someone had ripped off his insignia."

 "Paul thought back to the impotent rage as the strange 'thopter dived out of the night onto them, stooping like a giant hawk above the desert with wind screaming through its wings."

 "It was like an ancient naval battle, remembered shellfire, and the sight held them staring."

The Sardaukar Warriors.

The Flight Through The Shield Wall.

 "The man took a tiny tube, held it beside the Bat's head and chattered into the tube; then, lifting the creature high, he threw it upward."

 "We have the tiger by the tail," Paul whispered. "We can't go down, can't land ... And I don't think I can lift us out of this. We'll have to ride it out."

 "Jessica leaped off the 'thopter and ran, scrambling and sliding up the dune. She heard Paul's panting progress behind."

 "The mouth snaked toward the narrow crack where Paul and Jessica huddled. Cinnamon yelled in their nostrils. Moonlight flashed from crystal teeth."

 "Somewhere beneath him, the pre-Spice mass had accumulated enough water and organic matter from the little makers, had reached the critical stage of wild growth."

 "In the moonlight and reflection off grey stone, Paul saw a small figure in Fremen robes, a shadowed face peering out at him from the hood, and the muzzle of one of the projectile weapons aimed at him from a fold of robe."

 "He bent over the mound of belongings, lifted out the Baliset."

 "Feyd-Rautha lifted the barbs high, nodded in an almost-greeting. The gladiator pounced."

Paul Muad'Dib Calling His First Sandworm.

Stilgar And His Men.

 "An image unfolded before the mutual mind's eye: a young girl with a dancing spirit and tender humour."

 "Hawat watches everybody."

 "Chani joined him outside the tent, hugging her elbows, looking up at him from the corners of her eyes the way she did when she studied his mood."

 "Paul waited on the sand outside the gigantic Maker's line of approach."

 "The smuggler's Spice factory with its parent Carrier and ring of drone Ornithopters came over a lifting of dunes like a swarm of insects following its queen."

 "Paul Muad'Dib."

 "Through it all threaded the realization that her son was the Kwisatz Haderach, the one who could be many places at once."

 "Will you look at that thing!" Stilgar whispered.

 "I'm sorry, grandfather," Alia said. "you've met the Atreides Gom Jabber."

Paul Adminsters The Oath Of The Fedaykin.

The Defeat Of The Sardaukar.

"Breathing deeply to restore his calm, paul pushed himself away and got to his feet."