^*A rumor began to circulate in the 1960s that The Dragon in the Sea tied with William Golding’s Lord of the Flies for the 1955 International Fantasy Award. This was inaccurate. For many years my parents even believed Dragon had shared the award, and it was reported incorrectly that Frank Herbert was the only writer ever to win all three major science fiction awards, the Nebula, the Hugo, and the International Fantasy Award.