Man of Two Worlds, Frank Herbert
Man of Two Worlds, Frank Herbert
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Man of Two Worlds

Author: Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 15 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/15/2014

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Frank Herbert's last published novel is a charming and witty science fiction adventure coauthored with his son Brian.What if the entire universe were the creation of alien minds? After an unfortunate spaceship accident, the hedonistic human Lutt Hansen Jr. finds himself sharing his body and mind with a na├»ve alien dreamer. Together the two must survive dangers, schemes, and assassination attempts—but can they survive each other?

About Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert (1920–1986), winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards and a #1 New York Times bestselling author, was born in Tacoma, Washington, and worked as a reporter and later as an editor for a number of West Coast newspapers before becoming a full-time writer. His first science fiction story was published in 1952, but he achieved fame more than ten years later with the publication of “Dune World” and “The Prophet of Dune” in Analog. The stories were amalgamated in the bestselling novel Dune in 1965.

About Brian Herbert

Brian Herbert, the son of Frank Herbert, is a New York Times bestselling author who has won the New York Times Notable Book Award. He has been nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. In 2003 he published Dreamer of Dune, a moving biography of his father that was a Hugo Award finalist. Two of his recent novels are ecological thrillers—Ocean and The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma.

About Scott Brick

Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Temani on March 02, 2012

Unlike everyone else here, I really loved this book. I have read it at several times of transition in my life. As an African-American growing up and going to college in the Midwest, the title caught my attention. I liked the character development, from that persoective. Later, I felt that the Herber......more

Goodreads review by Bobby on September 12, 2008

In "Man of Two Worlds," an collaboration of minds between Frank Herbert of Dune fame and his son Brian Herbert, I found both pleasure and disappointment. For anybody who's read Dune, they know Frank Herbert is capable of creating worlds and universes that are staggering in their complexity, economic......more

Goodreads review by Mr. on June 12, 2018

A student read it and I'm into Herbert but this didn't do it for me. An interesting premise but the characters never kept my attention.......more

Goodreads review by Steve on March 23, 2023

"Man of Two Worlds" by Frank Herbert is a fascinating and imaginative science fiction novel that explores the intersection between storytelling, creativity, and reality. The novel is set in a universe where the Dreens, a mysterious and enigmatic race of beings, possess the power to create entire wor......more

Goodreads review by Costin on April 20, 2023

Man of Two Worlds may be the worst book signed by Frank Herbert that I've ever read. It features that nasty '50s newsroom trope, where single minded egotistical people (sometimes to the point of cruelty) get a pass because they are brilliant and they talk fast (and they own the newspaper). The chara......more

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