Tim O'Reilly's Frank Herbert (1981)

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In our Season 2 Finale, regular hosts Haitch and Jason are joined by internet publishing pioneer and author of two Frank Herbert Biographies, Tim O’Reilly. We cover the deeper meaning of Frank’s works, coming of age during the human potential movement, and what Frank was like at home.

Chapters

• Introduction (00:00:00)
• Dune News (00:06:33)
• Roundtable Discussion (00:10:43)
• Your Letters (01:12:12)

Notes and Links

• Hans Zimmer is done with the Dune score. @dunenewsnet flagged this from a GQ interview
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• Tim O’Reilly is ridiculously well read. From the episode:
  •    Tim’s favorite sci-fi as a kid, Andre Norton’s The Stars are Ours! and Heinlein’s Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, and the books of EE ‘Doc’ Smith
    •    He liked the crazy consequences of relativistic travel in F.M. Busby’s Rissa Kerguelen
  •    He thinks we can learn about the futility of our struggles by reading The Man Watching by Rainer Maria Rilke as translated by Robert Bly
  •    Tim appreciated that Dune was more complicated than other sci-fi stories like The World of Null A by A. E. Van Voght
  •    Tim quoted an amazing line from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, ‘what I do and dream must include thee as the wine must taste of its own grapes’
  •    Tim interviewed one of his heroes, Albert Lord, who wrote The Singer of Tales, about oral formulaic epics
  •    He enjoyed the historical novel about Harold, last of the Saxon kings, The Golden Warrior
  •    He's reading the travel writing of Patrick Leigh Fermor, who in a trilogy written over 70 years(!) tells his story of walking from England to Constantinople in A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and The Broken Road
• Tim O’Reilly’s 1977 biography Frank Herbert
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