{"id":1381,"date":"2018-10-08T10:47:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2018-10-08T10:47:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:47:54","slug":"frank-herbert-at-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/frank-herbert-at-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Herbert at 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Herbert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1382\" src=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Herbert-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Herbert-300x167.jpg 300w, http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Frank-Herbert.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Frank Herbert was born on this date, October 8, in 1920.\u00a0 He passed away in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Herbert was the author of <em>Dune<\/em> and a number of sequels.\u00a0 (Note to self:\u00a0 reread <em>Dune<\/em> and read the sequels written by Herbert.)<\/p>\n<p>But he wrote a number of other novels, including <em>The Santaroga Barrier<\/em>, <em>The Dosadi Experiment<\/em>, and <em>Under Pressure<\/em>, to name a few.\u00a0 His collected short fiction was published about five or six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Today, though, Herbert is remembered primarily for <em>Dune<\/em>.\u00a0 I suspect that&#8217;s because Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson have turned it into a franchise.<\/p>\n<p>The influence of <em>Dune<\/em> cannot be overstated.\u00a0 If it&#8217;s been out of print since it was first published, I&#8217;m not aware of it.\u00a0 The book is rightly considered a classic.<\/p>\n<p>Herbert should be remembered for the other work he did, though.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve only read a few of his other books, and those were years ago.\u00a0 I enjoyed them and have several novels of his novels that I haven&#8217;t read sitting on the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Herbert&#8217;s birthday, I&#8217;ll try to read a short story this evening.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been reading some older science fiction over the last few months, although I&#8217;ve not blogged about any of it.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try to include one of Herbert&#8217;s novels in the mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Herbert was born on this date, October 8, in 1920.\u00a0 He passed away in 1986. Herbert was the author of Dune and a number of sequels.\u00a0 (Note to self:\u00a0 reread Dune and read the sequels written by Herbert.) But he wrote a number of other novels, including The Santaroga Barrier, The Dosadi Experiment, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[296],"tags":[775,844],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthday","tag-birthday","tag-frank-herbert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-mh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}