Hunters of Dune (The Dune Sequence Book 7)

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But these are all failings that would simply leave me, at worse, very disappointed. Surely "hate" is too strong an emotion to direct towards a weak pulp sci-fi series. Surely we can be adults about this and simply try and forget about this whole business, without having our experience of the original Dune works diminished, because, surely, such a thing isn't really possible, at least not beyond some sort of petulant yet temporary displeasure stemming from the aforementioned disappointment. Another annoying bit, though I may be dead wrong, is that the interstellar travel is expressly described numerous times as folding space, which requires spice to accomplish, unless we have fancy & forbidden Ixian machinery or stuff from Beyond the Scattering. IIRC, however, Dune did not deploy folding space at all, but rather explained that the the navigators needed the spice for the purpose of developing sufficiently prescient awareness that they might pilot the Guild ships at FTL speeds. It's an irritating revision that essentially adopts David Lynch's ultra vires film. These women are supposed to be the strongest, slyest, most intelligent creatures in the universe! This story depicts them as not being able to intuit things better than lower level non-BGs in the same room? I am offended. They also have the BGs showing emotions in front of strangers (would never happen) and being outsmarted by Tleilaxu?!!? I don't think so!! At least not in the elementary way they imagine.

This book is supposed to be the ending of the six book original series that Frank wrote. He died before completing it, and they found outlines and are trying to complete it in his absence. Brian and Kevin, with the prompting of TOR I am sure, have split the last book into 2 parts. So there is no real conclusion in this book. The penultimate chronicle of Dune can be described in four words. The premise of the book, the setting, the whole storyline, the motivations and development of every single character; it all stems from this short sentence: AC/DC’s guitarist Angus Young was famously asked, “haven’t you produced 12 albums that sound alike?” To which Angus corrected, “No, we’ve produced 13 albums that sound exactly alike". Metallica front man James Hetfield was asked if they had sold out. His reply: “Yep, every night.”

Hunters of Dune

BH and KJAs Dune books seem to not get a lot of love, but I'm curious if anyone on this subreddit thought those Dune "sequel" books were worth reading. Feb 9, 2020; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Florence Pugh arrives at the 92nd Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre. Mandatory Credit: Dan MacMedan-USA TODAY Dune Messiah Aboard their sophisticated no-ship, they have used long-stored cells to resurrect heroes and villains from the past including Paul Muad'dib and his love Chani, Lady Jessica, Thufir Hawat, even the traitor Doctor Yueh, all in preparation for a final confrontation with a mysterious outside Enemy so great it can destroy even the terrible Honored Matres. There’s enough story here for Warner Bros. to make Dunecontent until the end of eternity. The stories explore the galaxy before Dune,the galaxy after Dune, and the organizations that populate the galaxy, like theBene Gesserit and the space guilds. Ifreading more Dunecontent is something that interests you, there is more than enough out there to peruse, and it’s all fantastically written and highly entertaining. And second, by a chain of important revelations at the end leading up to the answering of the ultimate question:

Watching images of the final bombardment now, Miles Teg wondered at what point his original body had been obliterated. Did it really matter? Now that he was alive again, he had a second chance. Lo ammetto, la paura era tanta, avrei preferito una rivelazione del Nemico ben diversa e che fosse più consona al tema e allo stile di Dune e meno, permettetemi, "banale".Meanwhile Morbella, having united the Honored Matres and Bene Gesserit into one sisterhood begins building an army the likes of which has never before been seen by humanity. First she crushes the remnants of rebel Honored Matres and then sets to the task of readying and unifying humanity against the coming threat of the unknown enemy. Ghosts from the past even older than the Kwisatz Haderach have been growing and festering beyond the reach of human occupied space for fifteen thousand years, awaiting the chance to strike and lay waste to those that cast them out, bringing many startling revelations with them out of the murky past of the old Empire. That something is a return for Omnius and Erasmus, and it’s as a capstone to the epic that began with The Butlerian Jihad that Hunters of Dune succeeds most. It may sit somewhat awkwardly alongside Frank Herbert’s classics, but the Anderson/Herbert prequels and expansions remain my favourite part of this universe, and to it finally tied together is satisfying. Again though, there is a problem. The scope of Omnius’s plans are grand, being as they are, a plot for universal domination. But the only planets we really know are Dune (now destroyed), Caladan (now simply Dan), and Chapterhouse. Expansive though it may be thematically, the Dune universe actually feels quite limited in geography. When you don’t know anything about the wider Galaxy, it’s hard to be interested as lists of planets are reeled off as targets for destruction.