American writer (1920–1986)
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He built a desert planet so intricate it changed what science fiction could be—Dune sold millions, spawned five sequels, and keeps getting remade because no one's cracked its full vision yet.
Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. was born October 8, 1920, and spent years working as a newspaper journalist, photographer, and book reviewer before science fiction took over. In 1965 he published Dune, a novel dense with ecology, politics, and religion that became one of the best-selling science-fiction books of all time. He wrote five sequels, cementing the series as a genre classic. The adaptations kept coming—David Lynch's divisive 1984 film, two 2000s miniseries, and now Denis Villeneuve's trilogy, with parts released in 2021 and 2024. Herbert died February 11, 1986, decades before the desert…
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If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.
The current utopian ideal being touted by people as politically diverse (on the surface, but not underneath) as President Richard M. Nixon and Senator Edward M.
When I was quite young... I began to suspect there must be flaws in my sense of reality.
If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.
The thing we must do intensely is be human together. People are more important than things. We must get together. The best thing humans can have going for them is each other.
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