Dune: An interview with Frank Herbert and David Lynch

by Frank Herbert, David Lynch

Author Frank Herbert and film director David Lynch discuss the making of "Dune", the motion picture; followed by Frank Herbert's dialogue on beliefs, values, and his writing.

Audio Cassette

Published January 1, 1983

About the author

Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. was an American science fiction author best known for the 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for his novels, he also wrote short stories and worked as a newspaper journalist, photographer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and lecturer.
The Dune saga, set in the distant future, and taking place over millennia, explores complex themes, such as the long-term survival of the human species, human evolution, planetary science and ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics, economics and power in a future where humanity has long since developed interstellar travel and settled many thousands of worlds. Dune is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time, and the entire series is considered to be among the classics of the genre.

Reviews

[David Segovia · Rating 5 out of 5]

"I am a political animal, and I really never left journalism I’m writing about the current

scene the metaphors are there, I’m writing about the political ecology, the religious ecology, the social ecology, and the physical ecology of our world, and I think you do not separate any one part of this from the others, you don’t separate mind and body and understand the human being. And therefore you don’t separate any of these elements and understand what’s going on in our world. We fondly say that in the United States we separate church and state, that’s an asinine statement, there’s nothing more emotional than religion, nothing more emotionally demanding than religion, because it is the promise of survival. You can’t take that out of politics, you get heated emotions.. aroused. I am a political animal and that’s what I’m writing about, I’m writing about the economic ecology, the… the politics of all of these things… that influence our lives."