The Green Brain

Cover art by Gerald McConnell

"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 vibration weapons, men like Joao Martinho and his co-workers fought to clear the green hell on the Mato Grosso.

But somehow those areas which had been completely cleared were becoming reinfested. Tales were coming out from the jungles... of mutated insects that have grown to incredible sizes and able to produce deadly toxins... of insects who seem to be men, but whose eyes gleamed with chitinous sheen of insects."

The Green Brain, Frank Herbert, Ace Books © 1966

The Santaroga Barrier

Santaroga

"Dasein pictured the Santaroga Valley as a swarming place behind a facade like pyramid: solid, faceless, enduring. In there, behind the facade, Santaroga did something to its people...

He sensed a one-pointedness here such that every Santarogan became an extension of every other Santarogan. They were like rays spreading out from a pinhole in a black curtain.

What lay behind the balck curtain?"

The Santaroga Barrier, Frank Herbert, Copyright 1968, Berkley Medallion Books

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"No one bought cigarettes in Santaroga. No cheese, wine, beer, or produce from outside the valley could be sold there. The list went on and on and grew stranger and stranger. Maybe Santaroga was the last outpost of American individualism. Maybe they were just a bunch of religious kooks..."

Angle-space Transmissions

‘By angle-space transmission, any place in the universe is just around the corner from any other place.’

Haigh Company Employee Handbook

By the Book, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

Problems Should be Approached in Two Stages

“Each problem should be approached in two stages:

1. Locate those areas which contribute most to the malfunction
2. Take remedial action designed to reduce hazards which have been positively identified”

Haigh Company Employee Handbook
By the Book, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

And the Handbook Says

“There is no point in planning sophisticated research on a specific factor’s role unless that factor’s is known to be present.”

Haigh Company Employee Handbook

By the Book, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

What Does the Haigh Company Handbook Say?

“The good troubleshooter is cost conscious, and aware that down time and equipment replacement are factors of serious concern to the Haigh Company.”

Haigh Company Employee Handbook

By the Book, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

What does the handbook have to say?

‘Frequently it pays to look first for the characteristics of devices in use which may be such that an essential pragmatic approach offers the best chance to success. It often is possible to solve an accident of malfunction problem with straightforward and uncomplicated approaches, deliberately ignoring their more subtle aspects.’ “

Haigh Company Employee Handbook
By the Book, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

What Did the Handbook Say?

"Every test under field conditions shall approximate as closey as possible the conditions set down by laboratory precedent."

Haigh Company Employee Handbook

By the Book, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

What Did the Handbook Say?

"You will take your work seriously. Infinite numbers of yet-unborn humankind depend upon you who keep open the communication lines through negetive space. Let the angle-transmission networks fail and Man will fail."

Haigh Company Employee Handbook

By the Book, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

A Host of Characters - Pander Oulson

"Pander Oulson, the Bureau of Sabotage's chief counsel. Oulson was a great thug of a figure in defence white with glistenous eyes under beetle brows and a face fashioned mostly of scars."

The Tactful Saboteur, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

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The Worlds of Frank Herbert

Cover art by Dean Ellis

Copyright © Ace Book 1971, by Frank Herbert

Stories were previously Copyright ©, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1965, by Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1965, 1966, 1967, by Conde Publishing, Inc.

This volume contains nine short stories that are told only the way Frank Herbert could tell them.

1. The Tactful Saboteur, 7
2. By The Book, 37
3. Committee of The Whole, 61
4. Mating Call, 78
5. Escape Felicity, 93
6. The GM Effrct, 113
7. The Featherbedders, 125
8. Old Rambling House, 152
9. A-W-F Unlimited, 160

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Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Worlds of Frank Herbert (1970)
The Book of Frank Herbert (1973)
The Best of Frank Herbert 1965-70 (1975)
The Best of Frank Herbert (1975)
The Best of Frank Herbert 1952-1964 (1977)
The Priests Of Psi (1981)
Eye (1985)
Classic Science Fiction Stories (2009)
The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert (2014)
Four Unpublished Novels (2016)
Frank Herbert: Unpublished Stories (2016)

“Once more the drama begins”

The Emperor Paul Muad’dib on his ascension to the Lion Throne

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“The sharply silver light of noon poured through clerestory windows on to the floor worked in green, blue, and eggshell tiles to simulate a bayou with water plants and here and there, a splash of exotic color to indicate a bird or animal.

Guildsmen moved across the tile pattern like hunters stalking their prey in a strange jungle. They formed a moving design of grey robes, black robes, and orange robes all arrayed in a deceptively random way around the transparent tank where the Steersmen-Ambassador swan in his orange gas. The tank slid on its supporting field, towed by two grey robbed attendants, like a rectangular ship being warped into its dock.”

Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert

The Orgy as a Tool of Statecraft

"The most dangerous game in the universe is to govern from an oracular base. We do not consider ourselves wise enough or brave enough to play that game. The measures detailed here for regulation in lesser matters are as near as we dare venture to the brink of government. For our purposes, we borrow a definition from the Bene Gesserit and we consider the various worlds as gene pools, sources of teachings and teachers, sources of the possible. Our goal is not to rule, but to tap these gene pools, to learn, and to free ourselves from all restraints imposed by dependency and government."

The Orgy as a Tool of Statecraft, Chapter Three of The Steersman's Guild

Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert

The Tleilax Theorem

“Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.”

Tleilax Theorem (unproven)

Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert

A Proverb of Muad’ Dib, A Host of Characters

“There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly and casually into the other.”

Muad’ Dib

Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert

They Made Him a God

"-then they discovered they could not control him.

The arcane sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit had produced Paul Atreides by generations of controlled breeding and a lifetime of training in their strange disciplines, giving him, more than human powers. Their intrigues had helped place him on the throne of the Galaxy-wide empire-but he would not their tool, and they set out to overthrow him."

Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert, Berkley Medallion Books, 1969

Fanny Mae Determines Her Own Brand of Reality

"McKie peered at the shimmering un-presence of the Caleban, ‘Fanny Mae suggested it? He murmured. And he thought, Fanny Mae determines her own brand of reality from what she sees of these mysterious connectives: a special perception tailored to her particular energy consumption.'"

Whipping Star, Frank Herbert

Caleban Concept of Time

“Time, for the Caleban¹, is a position on a line, McKie reminded himself. I must look for the subtly differences; they are all this creature sees.”

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¹ This particular Caleban went by the name of Fannie Mae.

Conversations with a Caleban

"Who can say how a Caleban speaks? Their words come at you like the corrusating of a nine-ribbon Sojeu barber pole. The insensitive say such words radiate. I say the Caleban speaks. When words are sent, is that not speach? Send me your words, Caleban, and I will tell the world of your wisdon."

Excerpt from Conversations with a Caleban, Masarard

Whipping Star, Frank Herbert

The Whipping Star

The End of Life

“…throughout the Galaxy was months-or days or minutes- away. When the last mysterious entities known as Calebans died, so would all those who had ever traveled by a Caleban “jumpdoor”-and the jumpdoors were the universal means on travel, with every intelligent being on every planet using them constantly.

The Caleban had to be kept alive-but it was under contract to a psychotic millionaire who was subjecting it to systematic, damaging torture. McKie and Furuneo of the Bureau of Sabotage had to outwit her-if they could stay alive one enough!”

The Whipping Star, Frank Herbert, Berkley Medallion Books, 1970

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