It was the first book in what began as a trilogy and grew to six novels, and it became a cult favorite. Herbert's best-known novel, has been translated into 14 languages and has sold more than 12 million copies since it was published in 1965. Herbert had been working with his son Brian on the seventh novel in his ''Dune'' series and several other projects at the time of his death, according to Kirby McCauley, Mr. He was 65 years old and lived in Mercer Island, Wash. The science-fiction writer Frank Herbert, whose best-selling ''Dune'' told of a harsh desert planet and its people, the intrigues of an interplanetary empire and a mysterious spice that made a young duke able to see the future, died of cancer Tuesday at University of Wisconsin Hospital.
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