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• argimenes · Dec 25, 2013 · Recommends

  …'Virtual Reality' by Howard Rheingold 'Stack Computers: The New Wave' by Philip Koopman 'Thinking Forth' by Leo Brodie 'WIMP Programming for All on Acorn RISC Computers' by Lee Calcraft and Alan Wrigley 'Frank Herbert' by Timothy O'Reilly 'Modern Painters: volume 1' by John Ruskin 'Aratra Pentelici' by John Ruskin 'The Art and Craft of Drawing' by Vernon Blake 'The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci' by Dmitri Merezhkovsky…

  on “Ask HN: Best books you read in 2013” ↗
• memexy · Jun 13, 2020 · Recommends

  …reference to physics, computation, cybernetics, information theory, semiotics, logic, general semantics, ecology, etc. I like all of those fields so his explanations make a lot of sense. I recently read "Frank Herbert" by Tim O'Reilly and Herbert also speaks with the same metaphors but with a much heavier emphasis on ecology: https://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/. I suspect analyzing the ideas that Herbert and Watts…

  on “Alan Watts” ↗
• ttctciyf · Mar 24, 2024 · Recommends

  Tim O'Reilly, of the famous publishers, interviewed and later befriended Herbert while writing his 1981 book on the author, Frank Herbert. It covers a lot of the themes of the linked essay in an effort to explore the origin and meaning of the Dune trilogy, as it was then. The book is freely available on oreilly.com[1] and likely worth…

  on “Dune Genesis (1980)” ↗
• btilly · Mar 4, 2025 · Recommends

  The article makes reference to Tim O'Reilly's excellent Frank Herbert. That book is well worth reading by anybody who wants to better understand Frank Herbert, and is available for free at https://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/.

  on “Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)” ↗
• isoos · Jul 4, 2015 · Recommends

  Those who want to learn more about Dune and Frank Herbert, I strongly suggest to read Tim O'Reilly's interview / autobiography book: http://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/ I am a long-time Dune fan, and this book and the background information it provides makes…

  on “Dune, 50 years on” ↗
• isoos · Sep 2, 2019 · Mentions

  Tim O'Reilly: Frank Herbert (online version) https://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/ "I wrote Frank Herbert over a period of about two years, and it was published in 1981. In the course of writing it, I read all of Herbert’s novels,…

  on “The Secret History of Dune” ↗
• djkivi · Mar 15, 2023 · Mentions

  Tim O'Reilly actually wrote a biography of Frank Herbert that people might find interesting: https://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/ Edit: I see Tim O'Reilly was the editor of the "Maker of Dune" book mentioned here also.

  on “The Butlerian Jihad” ↗