Eye (short story collection)

Eye (1985) is a collection of 13 science fiction short stories by American writer Frank Herbert. All of the works had been previously published in magazine or book form, except for "The Road to Dune".

Contents

Introduction

Herbert discusses David Lynch's film Dune and his own participation in the production, and lists scenes that were shot, but cut from the released version.

Short fiction

• "Rat Race"
• "
  Astounding
  magazine from December 1955 through February 1956. It was revised and expanded into a novel in 1956. The version in this collection is the original short version, only 36 pages long.
• "Cease Fire"
• "
  ConSentiency universe
  .
• "Try to Remember" - A linguist who tries to decipher the language of a race of frog-like extraterrestrials.
• "
  ConSentiency universe. It is a sequel to the above story "A Matter of Traces
  ".
• "The Road to Dune" - Set in Herbert's
  Reverend Mother Mohiam
  .
• "By the Book"
• "Seed Stock"
• "Murder Will In"
• "Passage for Piano"
• "Death of a City"
• "Frogs and Scientists"

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed Eye for White Dwarf #83, and stated that "It's a good anthology, free of the grotty potboilers which filled out earlier collections. I would have preferred another 'real' short story or two in place of the extract from The Dragon in the Sea (which deserves to be read in context): otherwise, OK."^[1]

Awards

Eye was nominated for a Locus Award for best short story collection in 1986, but lost to Stephen King's collection Skeleton Crew.^[2]

References

External links

• Eye title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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