WRITER TALK: TOM HUDDLESTON

Tom Huddleston will talk about writing his book, The Worlds of Dune.

Tom Huddleston is an author, musician and journalist whose books include THE WORLDS OF DUNE, about the inspirations behind Frank Herbert's sci-fi masterpiece; the futuristic, action-packed FloodWorld trilogy (FLOODWORLD, DUSTROAD, STORMTIDE); sword and sorcery series Warhammer Adventures: Realm Quest; and three instalments in the official Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space series.

The Worlds of Dune: The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert:

Some writers build worlds. Others birth entire universes. 

In the decades since its publication, Frank Herbert’s Dune has become arguably the best-selling and certainly the best-known science fiction novel ever written. So how did an ex-Navy newspaperman from Washington State come to write such a world-conquering novel? And how was he able to pack it with so many layers of myth and meaning?