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10 unusual facts about Frank Herbert


Bi-la kaifa

Bi-la kaifa is also a religious phrase used by the Fremen people in the Dune universe created by author Frank Herbert.

Bureau of Sabotage

The Bureau of Sabotage is a fictional government entity set in two of Frank Herbert's science fiction novels, Whipping Star and The Dosadi Experiment, and first introduced in his 1964 short story "The Tactful Saboteur".

Conceptions of God

In Frank Herbert's science-fiction series Dune, a messianic figure is created after thousands of years of controlled breeding.

Fenian Ram

Presumably as a tribute to this vessel, the submarine which features in Frank Herbert's classic science-fiction novel of submarine warfare, The Dragon in the Sea, is named "Fenian Ram".

Gamma Piscium

In Frank Herbert's Dune series, Gamma Waiping (The Chinese name for Pisces) is the home system of Imperial House Corrino.

Harkonen

House Harkonnen (or one of its members), a fictional noble family from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

Mitchell Galin

He is best known for his work on Stephen King's The Stand for ABC and Frank Herbert's Dune for Syfy.

OpenMediaVault

In addition to the version number, each version has a codename which is from the novel Dune from Frank Herbert.

Richard P. Rubinstein

Rubinstein holds the film and television rights to the Dune series of books by Frank Herbert.

Water to the Dead

The name Water to the Dead was, like the band's name, taken from the book Dune by Frank Herbert.


Everett McGill

McGill first worked with Lynch in the 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune, in which he played Fremen leader Stilgar.

Ghanima Atreides

In the Sci-Fi Channel's 2003 Children of Dune TV miniseries, Ghanima Atreides is portrayed by Jessica Brooks as a teenager.

Gurney Halleck

-- P. H. Moriarty in the 2003 Children of Dune miniseries -->

Hunters of Dune

Hunters of Dune is the first of two books written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson to conclude Frank Herbert's original Dune series of novels.

Odd John

Later explorations of the theme of the superhuman and of the incompatibility of the normal with the supernormal occurs in the works of Stanisław Lem, Frank Herbert, Wilmar Shiras, Robert Heinlein and Vernor Vinge, among others.

Port Townsend Writers' Conference

Noted authors who have been associated with the Port Townsend Writers' Conference over the years include Margaret Atwood, Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ken Kesey, Carolyn Forché, Belle Randall, Barry Lopez, Tom Robbins, Sam Hamill, Marvin Bell, Sherman Alexie, David Guterson, Terry Tempest Williams and Frank Herbert.

Sandworms of Dune

Sandworms of Dune is the second of two novels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson to conclude Frank Herbert's original Dune series of novels.

Sennacherib

Sennacherib is briefly mentioned in the science-fiction novel Children of Dune by Frank Herbert, and in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.