The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction

Introduction -- Crisis, Anyone? Listening To The Left Hand -- Science Fiction And A World In Crisis -- About Frank Herbert. Country Boy -- You Can Go Home Again -- On Writing. Introduction To Nebula Winners Fifteen -- Men On Other Planets -- Poetry -- The Origins Of Dune. Dangers Of The Superhero -- The Sparks Have Flown -- The Campbell Correspondence -- Sandworms Of Dune -- Possible Futures. Undersea Riches For Everybody -- Man's Future In Space -- 2068 A.d. -- The Sky Is Going To Fall -- An Understanding Of Consequences. Natural Man, Natural Predator -- Introduction To Saving Worlds -- We're Losing The Smog War -- Lying To Ourselves About Air -- Ships -- Doll Factory, Gun Factory -- Do Not Fold, Spindle, Or Mutilate. The Tillers -- Flying Saucers : Fact Or Farce? -- Conversations In Port Townsend -- New World Or No World Frank Herbert ; Edited And With Introductions By Tim O'reilly. Bibliography: P. [261]-279.