Happy Birthday, Frank Herbert!

[eldritchhobbit]

Happy birthday to Frank Herbert (8 October, 1920 – 11 February, 1986)!



"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
- Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)

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One of my favorite trilogies

[northwestmagpie.livejournal.com]

I feel, more and more, that God Emperor of Dune jumped an ocean of sharks, but I still love reading the first three novels. And the Programmer's Mantra is my favorite Dune parody. ;)

Re: One of my favorite trilogies

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Ah, the Programmer's Mantra! I haven't thought of that in ages. :D Thanks for the fan goodness. I'm grinning like a loon now.

It is by caffeine alone!

Re: One of my favorite trilogies

[northwestmagpie.livejournal.com]

"The hands acquires shakes, the shakes become a warning." ;)

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I read the first five or six or this massive work, but it got to be too much for me after awhile. It may even still be going with his son.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

I'm in a permanent state of denial that the books his son wrote (and is still writing?) even exist. ;) I love the first six, the ones by Frank himself, but after trying a couple of the others and learning my lesson, I'm sticking to the originals. *turns back on Brian H.* LOL!

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

I must not lose my temper.
Temper-temper-temper is the bum-killer.
Temper is the little mistake which leads to you lying
On the ground wondering Oi! What's with all this spreading pool of blood, then?

S.M. Stirling, The Sunrise Lands

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Love it!!!!