Influences: Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert (1920-1986) is considered one of the best science-fiction writers of all time.  His name belongs in the stratosphere with Asimov and Clarke.  Dune was a watershed novel in science-fiction.  In a time when science-fiction centered on human advancement through the development and use of technology, Dune suppressed technology.  He also brought an epic world-building view to science-fiction which had been reserved for the fantasy genre.  He also popularized ideas concerning ecology...