Dune - The machine crusade - Poche

Frank Herbert, who created Dune, was born in 192o and spent most of his early life in the Pacific Northwest of America. He was a professional photographer, journalist and occasional oyster-diver; he also had stints as a radio news commentator and jungle survival instructor. Though he is best known for Dune, he was also the author of several other important science fiction novels including The Green Brain, The Dragon in the Sea and The White Plague. He was awarded the Nebula and Hugo Awards - the highest literary accolades in the world of science fiction - for Dune. He died in 1986. Brian Herbert, his son, is a widely-published science fiction author in his own right who has also created his own worlds, sometimes in collaboration. He is the author of Dreamer of Dune, a comprehensive biography of his illustrious father. Kevin J. Anderson is best known for his world-wide best-selling novels based on the universes of Star Wars and The X-Files; he has been a Sunday Times number one bestseller. He is also the author of several more critically-acclaimed original novels. An expert on the US space programme, he worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for ten years.