Eye - Hardcover

Herbert,Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 057503906X ISBN 13: 9780575039063

Publisher: Gollancz, 1986

Synopsis

Explores the theme of the human response to changing or threatening environments

About this title

About the Author:

Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs--including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter and editor of several West Coast newspapers--before becoming a full-time writer. He died in 1986.

From Publishers Weekly:

After three fine collections celebrating SF greats Arthur C. Clarke, Fritz Leiber and Philip Jose Farmer, Preiss's Masterworks of SF & Fantasy series hits a snag here. Herbert is one of the biggest names in the field but his best work has been of novel length (Dune, Hellstrom's Hive, etc.). While some of the themes of those books reappear here, the stories are generally mediocre because Herbert lacks the space for adequate background and characterization to make us care. Only the short "Seed Stock," about colonizing an alien world, delves beneath the plot mechanics. This collection might have been redeemed if, like the previous volumes, it had included a long autobiographical essay. In its place, however, is a short, weak defense of the movie version of Dune. November
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About this edition

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 057503906X
• ISBN 13: 9780575039063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1