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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1956
  • Latest Book:
    December 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Dune Chronicles

1 - Dune (1965)
2 - Dune Messiah (1970)
3 - Children of Dune (May-1976)
4 - God Emperor of Dune (May-1981)
5 - Heretics of Dune (Apr-1984)
6 - Chapterhouse: Dune (Apr-1985)

Graphic Novel

1 - Dune: The Graphic Novel (Nov-2020)
2 - DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad'Dib (Aug-2022)

Multi-Author Series List

Dune

Dune (1965)
Dune Messiah (1970)
Children of Dune (May-1976)
God Emperor of Dune (May-1981)
Heretics of Dune (Apr-1984)
Chapterhouse: Dune (Apr-1985)

Pandora Sequence

1 - Destination: Void (Jun-1966)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • Under Pressure

    • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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  • Missing Link

    Missing Link is vintage Frank Herbert. It tells the story of Lewis Orne, junior I-A field man, on the planet Gienah III. He is there to investigate a missing space ship, and the natives are nothing but trouble......

  • Operation Haystack

    It's hard to ferret out a gang of fanatics; it would, obviously, be even harder to spot a genetic line of dedicated men. But the problem Orne had was one step tougher than that!...

  • Try to Remember

    The science language―an overly-neglected field for the extrapolations science-fiction―is put brilliant use in this powerful story. Against a background ultimate peril from a galactic invader, man (in this case, woman) back beyond Babel to recall ...

  • Dune

    • / Space Opera
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    Dune Chronicles - 1
    Dune

    Selected in a readers’ poll in 1975 as the greatest novel of imagination of all time, DUNE’S creation of a richly detailed world utterly unlike our own is only the beginning of its achievement. Arrakis, the desert planet called DUNE, is the home ...

  • Destination: Void

    Pandora Sequence - 1

    A stranded starship’s crew races against time to create an artificial consciousness in this epic by the New York Times"bestselling author of Dune.   The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hybernating colonists en route to a new wor...

  • The Santaroga Barrier

    • / Science Fiction
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    SANTAROGA Dasein pictured the Santaroga Valley as a swarming place behind a facade like a pyramid: solid, faceless, enduring. In there, behind the facade, Santaroga did something to its people .. . He sensed a one-pointedness here such that eve...

  • The Heaven Makers

    • / Science Fiction
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    Idle immortals, hungry for entertainment, turn their attention to humans in this science fiction novel by the New York Times"bestselling author of Dune.   Immortal aliens had observed Earth for centuries, making and viewing full sensory movie...

  • Dune Messiah

    • / Space Opera
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    Dune Chronicles - 2
    Dune

    Arrakis, the desert planet called Dune, has been the site of a terrible war and the source of a merciless holy crusade that swept the Galaxy. All this has been the result of the ascension to absolute power of the man known as Muad’dib. The unfor...



  • Whipping Star

    A classic novel from the master of science fiction, Frank Herbert's Whipping Star. “Herbert is one of the most thought-provoking writers of our time; by focusing on ‘alien' culture, he makes us examine what the true definition of ‘human' is....

  • Soul Catcher

    “Deeply felt and magical . . .” a novel about the bond between a Native American and his captive is “an eloquent evocation of the old earth-life religion”(Kirkus Reviews).   Katsuk, a militant Native American student, kidn...

  • The Godmakers

    An interstellar agent discovers his latent powers while investigating a warlike planet in this classic sci-fi fantasy by the author of Dune.It’s been centuries since the devastating Rim Wars separated numerous planets from the protection and contro...

  • Hellstrom's Hive

    The hellish hive in Oregon The time: The 1970's, Police State, U.S.A. The all-powerful secret government agency wanted Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40. But it also knew that Hellstrom was dangerous. Any move to investigate his hidden farm must be ve...

  • Children of Dune

    Dune Chronicles - 3
    Dune

    The desert planet has begun to grow green and lush. The life-giving spice is abundant. The nine-year-old royal twins, possessing their fathers supernormal powers, are being groomed as Messiahs. But there are those who think the Imperium does not n...

  • The Dosadi Experiment

    • / Science Fiction
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    BEYOND THE GOD WALL Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, conditioned by constant hunger and war--this is the Dosadi Experiment, and it has succeeded too well. For the Dosadi have bred for Vengeance as well as cun...

  • Direct Descent

    From the New York Times"bestselling author of Dune, a sci-fi fantasy about government control of media and information.   Earth has become a library planet for thousands of years, a bastion of both useful and useless knowledge -- esoterica of ...

  • Nebula Winners Fifteen

  • The Book of Frank Herbert

  • God Emperor of Dune

    Dune Chronicles - 4
    Dune

    More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Empero...



  • The White Plague

    From Science fiction grandmaster Frank Herbert, creator of the Dune universe, comes this novel of bioterrorism and gendercide. What if women were an endangered species?It begins in Ireland, but soon spreads throughout the entire world: a virulent new...

  • The Worlds of Frank Herbert

  • Heretics of Dune

    Dune Chronicles - 5
    Dune

    The planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new po...

  • Green Brain

    • / Science Fiction
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    In an overpopulated world seeking living room in the jungles, the International Ecological Organization was systematically exterminating the voracious insects which made these areas uninhabitable. Using deadly foamal bombs and newly developed vibrati...

  • Chapterhouse: Dune

    Dune Chronicles - 6
    Dune

    THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE BESTSELLING SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME! The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world-and are turning it into a desert, m...

  • Eyes of Heisenberg

    • / Science Fiction
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    A New World in EmbryoPublic Law 10927 was clear and direct. Parents were permitted to watch the genetic alterations of their gametes by skilled surgeons . . . only no one ever requested it.When Lizbeth and Harvey Durant decided to invoke the Law; whe...

  • Man of Two Worlds

    From a New York Times bestseller, a sci-fi “novel of great charm and freshness, with improbable situations, weird complications, vital characters . . . ” (Kirkus Reviews).   What if the entire universe happened to be the creat...

  • Eye

    Eye features the startlingly original collaboration The Road to Dune, a walking tour of Arakeen narrated by Frank Herbert and illustrated by acclaimed British artist Jim Burns. Also included is an introduction by Herbert describing his personal feeli...

  • Songs of Muad'dib

    A collection of poems by the science fiction master and the author of Dune includes epic sagas of spice, sandworms, and mystical power struggles of the planet Arrakis, many of them never before published. Original....

  • Chapter House Dune

    The long-established galactic order is passing. The Honoured Matres, ruthless and all-conquering, have destroyed the planet Dune. In opposition, hard-pressed but still fighting back, the Bene Gesserit sisterhood co-ordinate their resistance from thei...



  • The Dragon in the Sea

    From the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of the science fiction masterpiece Dune, Frank Herbert's The Dragon in the Sea is a riveting thriller of a submarine crew trapped in the depths of the sea, hunted by one of their own. In the endless war b...

  • Old Rambling House: And Two Other Science Fiction Stories

    For this first time, this volume assembles three of Frank Herbert's classic short stories: "Old Rambling House" (originally published in 'Galaxy Science Fiction' magazine, April 1958); "Missing Link" (originally published in 'Astounding Science Ficti...

  • Frank Herbert Eye

    Eye features the startlingly original collaboration ""The Road to Dune,"" a walking tour of Arakeen narrated by Frank Herbert and illustrated by acclaimed British artist Jim Burns. Also included is an introduction by Herbert describing his personal f...

  • High-Opp

    From the New York Times"bestselling author of Dune, a dystopian novel in which a corrupted democracy leads to war between the privileged and labor classes. EMASI! Each Man A Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps engaged in a cla...

  • Old Rambling House

    On his last night on Earth, Ted Graham stepped out of a glass-walled telephone booth, ducked to avoid a swooping moth that battered itself in a frenzy against a bare globe above the booth. Ted Graham was a long-necked man with a head of pronounced eg...

  • Angels' Fall

    One of Frank Herbert’s lost, never-before-published novels written before Dune. Angels’ Fall is a gripping thriller set in the South American jungles. After a plane crash deep in the Amazon, freelance pilot Jeb Logan has to keep himself and his ...

  • A Game of Authors

    A conspiracy thriller from the New York Times"bestselling author of Dune, “one of America's most intelligent, imaginative, and magnetic novelists” (Kirkus Reviews).   In pursuit of a scoop, American journalist Hal Garson follows up on a my...

  • Operation Haystac

  • Untitled Frank Herbert Collected Stories

    Frank Herbert, the New York Times bestselling author of "Dune," is one of the most celebrated and commercially successful science fiction writers of all time. But while best known for originating the character of Paul Atreides and the desert world of...

  • A Thorn in the Bush

    From the New York Times"bestselling author of Dune, a novella about a woman who suspects her neighbor is a spy about to reveal  her long concealed past.   Mrs. Ross is an expatriate American who has found a quiet life in the small Mexican...



  • The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert

    The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert is the most complete collection of Herbert's short fiction ever assembled-thirty-seven stories originally published between 1952 and 1979, plus one story, "The Daddy Box," that has never been appeared before. ...

  • The Great Dune Trilogy

  • Dune: The Graphic Novel

    Graphic Novel - 1

    The first book in the definitive graphic novel adaptation of Dune, the groundbreaking science-fiction classic by Frank Herbert.   A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism, and politics, Dune is a powerful, fantastical tale t...

  • DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad'Dib

    Graphic Novel - 2

    In DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad’Dib, the second of three volumes adapting Frank Herbert’s Dune, young Paul Atreides and his mother, the lady Jessica, find themselves stranded in the deep desert of Arrakis. Betrayed by one of their own an...

  • Destination

    The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hybernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship's three Organic Mental Cores-disembodied human brains that control the vessel's functions-go...

  • Children Of Dune Frank Herbert

    • / Science Fiction
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Award-Winning Books by Frank Herbert

Dune
1965 Nebula Award -- Novel
1966 Hugo Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frank Herbert has published 45 books.

Frank Herbert does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Destination, was published in December 2022.

The first book by Frank Herbert, Under Pressure, was published in January 1956.

Yes. Frank Herbert has 2 series.
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