AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Author Biography and Bibliography

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Brian Herbert

Brian Herbert, author of numerous novels and short stories, has been critically acclaimed by leading reviewers in the United States and around the world. The eldest son of science fiction superstar Frank Herbert, Brian moved his home twenty-three times before graduating from high school as an honors student at the age of sixeen. He has been married for more than three decades and has three daughters.

Brian has been involved in a wide variety of professions and endeavors, including work as an author, an editor, a business manager, an inventor of board games, and a creative consultant for both television and collectible card games. He did not begin his writing career until he was nearly thirty years old; prior to that he worked as an insurance underwriter and agent, an award-winning encyclopedia salesman, a waiter, a busboy, a maid (not a typo), and a printer. He and his wife once owned a double-decker London bus which they converted into an unusual gift shop. Brian also operated a mail-order record and tape business, via which he sold "golden oldies" music to remote regions of the world, including the Australian outback.

Brian Herbert's first two books were humor collections, Incredible Insurance Claims and Classic Comebacks. After that a steady stream of novels ensued, including Sidney's Comet; The Garbage Chronicles; Sudanna, Sudanna;, Man of Two Worlds, with Frank Herbert; Prisoners of Arionn; The Race for God, a preliminary Nebula nominee in 1990; Memorymakers, with Marie Landis; and Blood on the Sun, also with Marie Landis. Among his work as editor are The Notebooks of Frank Herbert's Dune and Songs of Muad'Dib.

When Brian was in his late twenties and early thirties he began to grow closer to his father, who was a complex, enigmatic man. Brian's efforts to unravel the intriguing mysteries of his father began with a detailed journal that Brian maintained for years, chronicling the fascinating events of the Herbert family—a document which ultimately included the tragic deaths of his mother and father, and which he expanded into a comprehensive biography of Frank Herbert: Dreamer of Dune. The quest to understand one's father—which Joseph Campbell has described as one of the epic hero journeys of mankind—continued as Brian studied the entire six-volume Dune series and created a massive Dune Concordance. This would prove to be an invaluable reference book during the writing of additional Dune books in the three-volume "Prelude to Dune" series, which Brian undertook with Kevin J. Anderson in 1998.

Kevin J. Anderson

In the last six years, twenty-six of Kevin J. Anderson's novels have been national bestsellers, and he now has over eleven million copies in print in twenty-five languages throughout the world. Though he is best known for his numerous Star Wars and X-Files projects, Anderson has also received great critical acclaim for his original work, appearing on "Best of the Year" lists from Locus, Science Fiction Chronicle, and SFX, as well as the final ballots for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the American Physics Society's prestigious Forum Award. In 1998, he set the Guinness World Record for "Largest Single-Author Book Signing" in Hollywood, California.

Anderson's current project is writing a prequel trilogy to Dune with Frank Herbert's son Brian, which is based on thousands of pages of notes recently discovered in storage. Dune: House Atreides became a national and international bestseller and appeared on numerous "Best of the Year" lists. The second volume, House Harkonnen, will be published in October, 2000 by Bantam Books.

Anderson's research has taken him all over the world: to the deserts and ancient cities of Morocco; to the top of Mount Whitney and the bottom of the Grand Canyon; inside the Cheyenne Mountains' NORAD complex; into the Andes Mountains and to the Amazon River; inside a Minuteman III missile silo and its underground control bunker; onto the deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz; to Mayan and Incan temple ruins in South and Central America; inside NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building and onto shuttle launchpads at Cape Canaveral; onto the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange; inside a plutonium plant at Los Alamos; and behind the scenes at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC. He also, occasionally, stays home and writes.