Brian Patrick Herbert (born June 29, 1947) is a bestselling American author who lives in Washington state. He is the elder son of famed science fiction author Frank Herbert.
Brian Herbert's novels include Sidney's Comet, Prisoners of Arionn, Man of Two Worlds (written with his father), and Sudanna Sudanna. In 2003 Herbert wrote a biography of his father: Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert. The younger Herbert has edited The Songs of Muad'dib and the Notebooks of Frank Herbert's Dune. Brian has also created a concordance for the Dune universe based on his father's notes, though, according to the younger Herbert, there are no immediate plans to publish it.[1]
Brian is most famous for his collaborations with author Kevin J. Anderson, with whom he has written multiple prequels to his father's landmark 1965 science fiction novel, Dune, all of which have made the New York Times Best Seller list. The duo began with the trilogies Prelude to Dune (1999-2001) and Legends of Dune (2002-2004). Brian and Anderson next published Hunters of Dune (2006) and Sandworms of Dune (2007), two sequels to Frank Herbert's original Dune series which was left incomplete after his 1986 death. According to Herbert and Anderson, these novels are based on an outline and notes left behind by Frank Herbert for what he referred to as Dune 7, his own planned seventh novel in the Dune series.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] In 2008 Brian and Anderson began publishing Heroes of Dune, an interquel series of four novels which take place between the novels of Frank Herbert's original series.
Married since 1967, Brian and his wife, Jan Herbert, have three daughters named Julie, Kim, and Margaux Beverly. Brian also has an elder half-sister, Penny; their younger brother, gay activist Bruce Calvin Herbert, died of AIDS in 1999.
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Works
Individual
- Sidney's Comet (1983)
- The Garbage Chronicles (1985)
- Man of Two Worlds (1986) (with Frank Herbert)
- Sudanna, Sudanna (1986)
- Prisoners of Arionn (1987)
- The Race for God (1990)
- Memorymakers (1991) (with Marie Landis)
- Blood on the Sun (1996) (with Marie Landis)
Timeweb series
- Timeweb (2006)
- The Web and the Stars (2007)
- Webdancers (2008)
Non-fiction
Dune series with Kevin J. Anderson
Prelude to Dune trilogy
- Dune: House Atreides (1999)
- Dune: House Harkonnen (2000)
- Dune: House Corrino (2001)
Legends of Dune trilogy
- Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (2002)
- Dune: The Machine Crusade (2003)
- Dune: The Battle of Corrin (2004)
Dune 7
- Hunters of Dune (2006)
- Sandworms of Dune (2007)
Other
- The Road to Dune (companion book to the entire Dune collection) (2005)
Heroes of Dune
- Paul of Dune (2008)
- The Winds of Dune (2009)[9]
- The Throne of Dune[9]
- Leto of Dune'[10]
Dune short stories
- "Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas"
- "Dune: Hunting Harkonnens"
- "Dune: Whipping Mek"
- "Dune: The Faces of a Martyr"
- "Dune: Sea Child"
- "Dune: Treasure in the Sand"
References
- ^ http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue350/interview.html
- ^ "Dune 7 blog: Conspiracy Theories." DuneNovels.com (December 16, 2005). Retrieved on November 12, 2008. "Frank Herbert wrote a detailed outline for Dune 7 and he left extensive Dune 7 notes, as well as stored boxes of his descriptions, epigraphs, chapters, character backgrounds, historical notes — over a thousand pages worth."
- ^ Neuman, Clayton (August 17, 2009). "Winds of Dune Author Brian Herbert on Flipping the Myth of Jihad." AMCtv.com. Retrieved on August 19, 2009. "I got a call from an estate attorney who asked me what I wanted to do with two safety deposit boxes of my dad's ... in them were the notes to Dune 7 -- it was a 30-page outline. So I went up in my attic and found another 1,000 pages of working notes."
- ^ "Before Dune, After Frank Herbert." Amazon.com. Retrieved on November 12, 2008. "Brian was cleaning out his garage to make an office space and he found all these boxes that had "Dune Notes" on the side. And we used a lot of them for our House books."
- ^ "Interview with Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson." Arrakis.ru (2004). Retrieved on November 12, 2008. "We had already started work on House Atreides ... After we already had our general outline written and the proposal sent to publishers, then we found the outlines and notes. (This necessitated some changes, of course.)"
- ^ Ascher, Ian (2004). "Kevin J. Anderson Interview." DigitalWebbing.com (Internet Archive). Retrieved on July 3, 2007. "... we are ready to tackle the next major challenge — writing the grand climax of the saga that Frank Herbert left in his original notes sealed in a safe deposit box ... after we'd already decided what we wanted to write ... They opened up the safe deposit box and found inside the full and complete outline for Dune 7 ... Later, when Brian was cleaning out his garage, in the back he found ... over three thousand pages of Frank Herbert's other notes, background material, and character sketches."
- ^ Adams, John Joseph (August 9, 2006). "New Dune Books Resume Story." SciFi.com (Internet Archive). Retrieved on December 19, 2007. "Anderson said that Frank Herbert's notes included a description of the story and a great deal of character background information. 'But having a roadmap of the U.S. and actually driving across the country are two different things,' he said. 'Brian and I had a lot to work with and a lot to expand...'"
- ^ Snider, John C. (August 2007). "Audiobook Review: Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson." SciFiDimensions.com. Retrieved on February 15, 2009.
- ^ a b Anderson, Kevin J. (February 28, 2009). "Dune blog". DuneNovels.com. http://www.dunenovels.com/blog/page087.html. Retrieved March 5, 2009.
- ^ Anderson, Kevin J. (April 14, 2008). "Dune blog". DuneNovels.com. http://www.dunenovels.com/blog/page033.html. Retrieved March 5, 2009.
External links
- Brian Herbert at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Authors@Google video talk. October 07, 2008
- Brian Herbert Interview with AMCtv.com
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