Editing Frank Herbert (section)

=== ''Dune'' ===
[[File:USA Oregon Dunes.jpg|thumb|275px|The [[Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area|Oregon Dunes]] near [[Florence, Oregon]], served as an inspiration for the ''Dune'' saga.]]
Herbert began researching ''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'' in 1959.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frank Herbert _ AcademiaLab |url=https://academia-lab.com/encyclopedia/frank-herbert/ |access-date=October 18, 2024 |website=academia-lab.com}}</ref> He was able to devote himself wholeheartedly to his writing career because his wife returned to work full-time as an advertising writer for department stores, becoming their [[Breadwinner model|breadwinner]] during the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frank Herbert _ AcademiaLab |url=https://academia-lab.com/encyclopedia/frank-herbert/ |access-date=October 18, 2024 |website=academia-lab.com}}</ref> The novel ''Dune'' was published in 1965, which spearheaded the [[Dune (franchise)|''Dune'' franchise]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frank Herbert _ AcademiaLab |url=https://academia-lab.com/encyclopedia/frank-herbert/ |access-date=October 18, 2024 |website=academia-lab.com}}</ref> He later told [[Willis E. McNelly]] that the novel originated when he was assigned to write a magazine article about sand dunes in the [[Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area|Oregon Dunes]] near [[Florence, Oregon]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fagan |first=Damian |title=From the Dunes of Arrakis to the Oregon Coast |url=https://www.bendsource.com/outside/from-the-dunes-of-arrakis-to-the-oregon-coast-21079468 |access-date=October 18, 2024 |website=The Source Weekly - Bend |language=en}}</ref> He got overinvolved and ended up with far more raw material than needed for an article; while the article was never written, it planted in Herbert the seed that would become ''Dune''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Augustry |first=The |date=October 16, 2021 |title=Frank Herbert 1969 Willis E. McNelly DUNE Tape Interview - Transcript |url=https://theaugustry.com/willis-e-mcnelly-tape-interview-on-dune-and-its-origins-transcript/ |access-date=October 18, 2024 |website=The Augustry |language=en-US}}</ref> Another possible source of inspiration for ''Dune'' was Herbert's purported experiences with [[psilocybin]], according to [[Mycology|mycologist]] [[Paul Stamets]]'s account, which describes Herbert's hobby of cultivating [[chanterelle]]s.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stamets|first=Paul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qtsTH7ekvVYC&q=mycelium+running|title=Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World|date= 2011|publisher=Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale|isbn=978-1-60774-124-4|language=en}}</ref> The biography of Frank Herbert, ''Dreamer of Dune'', written by his son Brian Herbert, confirms that the author was passionate about culinary mushrooms but not his use of psilocybin.<ref name="Herbert" />

''Dune'' took six years of research and writing to complete, and was much longer than other commercial science fiction of the time.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SciFi Dune: Dune Genesis by Frank Herbert |url=https://courses.oermn.org/mod/page/view.php?id=13763 |access-date=October 18, 2024 |website=courses.oermn.org}}</ref> Herbert's environmental work in Oregon formed the basis of the speculative ecological work of the Fremen, which parallels real-world efforts and tactics of sand dune management.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-02 |title=Dune: The 'terraformed' Oregon dunes that inspired Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic |url=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240229-dune-part-two-the-oregon-sands-that-inspired-frank-herberts-arrakis |access-date=2025-03-04 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}</ref> ''[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Analog]]'' (formerly ''Astounding'', but still edited by [[John W. Campbell]]) published it in two parts comprising eight installments, "Dune World" from December 1963 and "Prophet of Dune" in 1965.<ref name="isfdb" /> It was then rejected by nearly twenty book publishers.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Michaud |first=Jon |date=2013-07-12 |title="Dune" Endures |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/dune-endures |access-date=2024-12-12 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> One editor prophetically wrote, "I might be making the mistake of the decade, but..."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=October 28, 2008|title=BBC – h2g2|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-london/A42130199|access-date=May 26, 2014|website=Edited guide entry, Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr. – Author|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation}}</ref>

[[Sterling E. Lanier]], an editor of [[Chilton Publishing Company|Chilton Book Company]] (known mainly for its auto-repair manuals), had read the Dune serials and offered a $7,500 advance plus future royalties for the rights to publish them as a hardcover book.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sandworms of Dune Blog|url=http://www.frankherbert.org/wormsblog/page051.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516124808/http://www.frankherbert.org/wormsblog/page051.html|archive-date=May 16, 2013|access-date=April 27, 2013|publisher=Frankherbert.org}}</ref> Herbert rewrote much of his text.<ref name="kirjasto">{{cite web|last=Liukkonen|first=Petri|title=Frank Herbert|url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fherbert.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427010107/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fherbert.htm|archive-date=April 27, 2014|website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi)|publisher=[[Kuusankoski]] Public Library|location=Finland}}</ref>

''Dune'' was soon a critical success.<ref name=":0" /> It won the [[Nebula Award]] for Best Novel in 1965 and shared the [[Hugo Award]] in 1966 with ''[[...And Call Me Conrad]]'' by [[Roger Zelazny]].<ref name="SFAwards" />

''Dune'' was not an immediate bestseller, although by 1968 Herbert had made $20,000 from it, far more than most science fiction novels of the time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Islam Sumatera Utara |first=Institutional Repository Universitas |date=October 18, 2024 |title=Chapter I,II.pdf |url=https://repository.uisu.ac.id/bitstream/123456789/1928/3/Chapter%20I%2CII.pdf |website=Institutional Repository Universitas Islam Sumatera Utara}}</ref> It was not, however, enough to let him take up full-time writing.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 4, 2024 |title=Frank Herbert {{!}} Biography, Books, Dune, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frank-Herbert |access-date=October 18, 2024 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> The publication of ''Dune'' did open doors for him; he was the ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]''{{'s}} education writer from 1969 to 1972 and lecturer in [[Bachelor of General Studies|general studies]] and [[integrative learning|interdisciplinary studies]] at the University of Washington (1970–1972).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schwartzwalder |first=Sofia |date=15 February 2023 |title=Students of Yesteryear: Frank Herbert |url=https://www.dailyuw.com/archives/students-of-yesteryear/article_bd5a7012-acf6-11ed-b617-5f9d3ae3ec14.html |access-date=1 February 2025 |website=The Daily}}</ref> He worked in [[Vietnam]] and [[Pakistan]] as a social and ecological consultant in 1972, and in 1973 he was director-photographer of the television show ''The Tillers''.<ref>Herbert, Brian. ''Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert''. New York: Tor Books, 2003, pp.&nbsp;257–258, {{ISBN|0-765-30646-8}} "[Frank Herbert completed] a half-hour documentary film based upon fieldwork he had done with [[Roy Prosterman]] in Pakistan [and] Vietnam ... Entitled ''The Tillers'', it was written, filmed and directed by Frank Herbert. ... it appeared on King Television in Seattle and on the Public Broadcasting System."</ref>

{{blockquote|I don't worry about inspiration or anything like that.... later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write."<ref>
Herbert quoted in Murray, Donald Morison (Editor) ''Shoptalk: learning to write with writers'' (1990) Cook Publishers, 1990.</ref>|Frank Herbert}}

By the end of 1972, Herbert had retired from newspaper writing and became a full-time fiction writer. During the 1970s and 1980s, he enjoyed considerable commercial success as an author. He divided his time between homes in [[Hawaii]] and [[Washington (state)|Washington]]'s [[Olympic Peninsula]]; his home in [[Port Townsend, Washington|Port Townsend]] on the peninsula was intended to be an "ecological demonstration project".{{Sfn|Touponce|1988}}{{Page needed|date=October 2021}} During this time he wrote numerous books and pushed ecological and philosophical ideas. He continued his [[Dune (franchise)|''Dune'' saga]] with ''[[Dune Messiah]]'' (1969), ''[[Children of Dune]]'' (1976), ''[[God Emperor of Dune]]'' (1981), ''[[Heretics of Dune]]'' (1984) and ''[[Chapterhouse: Dune]]'' (1985). Herbert planned to write a seventh novel to conclude the series, but his death in 1986 left storylines unresolved.<ref name="NYT 2006">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/books/review/Itzkoff.t.html|title=Across the Universe: 'Dune' Babies|last=Itzkoff|first=Dave|date=September 24, 2006|website=[[The New York Times]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151024031606/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/books/review/Itzkoff.t.html|archive-date=October 24, 2015|url-status=live|access-date=April 14, 2018}}</ref>

Other works by Herbert include ''[[The Godmakers (novel)|The Godmakers]]'' (1972), ''[[The Dosadi Experiment]]'' (1977), ''[[The White Plague]]'' (1982) and the books he wrote in partnership with [[Bill Ransom]]: ''[[The Jesus Incident]]'' (1979), ''[[The Lazarus Effect (novel)|The Lazarus Effect]]'' (1983) and ''[[The Ascension Factor]]'' (1988), which were sequels to Herbert's 1966 novel ''[[Destination: Void]]''. He also helped launch the career of [[Terry Brooks]] with a very positive review of Brooks' first novel, ''[[The Sword of Shannara]]'', in 1977.<ref>{{Citation|author=Shawn Speakman|title=Website History|url=http://www.terrybrooks.net/bio/website-history/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120914143839/http://www.terrybrooks.net/bio/website-history/|publisher=Terrybrooks.net|access-date=June 22, 2011|archive-date=September 14, 2012|url-status=dead}}.</ref>