Hunters Of Dune
Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in a safe-deposit box for a decade, these two volumes will finally answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades.At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune-Frank Herbert's final novel--a ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The nearly invincible Honored Matres have swarmed into the known universe, driven from their home by a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. As designed by the creative genius of Frank Herbert, the primary story of Hunters and Sandworms is the exotic odyssey of Duncan's no-ship as it is forced to elude the diabolical traps set by the ferocious, unknown Enemy. To strengthen their forces, the fugitives have used genetic technology from Scytale, the last Tleilaxu Master, to revive key figures from Dune's past-including Paul Muad'Dib and his beloved Chani, Lady Jessica, Stilgar, Thufir Hawat, and even Dr. Wellington Yueh.
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- I'm in a bit of a minority in most discussions in that I enjoyed Heretics and Chapterhouse for the galactic scale threat introduced and additional world building elements, and I even enjoyed (to some extent) Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson as a "best we could do" finale. I do think that the time skips and lack of original resolution hampered Heretics and Chapterhouse a little, and the ones written by Frank Herbert's son and someone I consider more of a "session" writer (akin to session musicians) were carried by momentum of story alone. The writing of Hunters/Sandworms had a significant decline in complexity, and Frank Herbert's writing wasn't exactly difficult prose to begin with.
One of the greatest tragedies to me is that the notes for the finale were not given to someone like Alastair Reynolds or Kim Stanley Robinson, both of whom I think would have done the material proper literary justice.
- My top fiction books this year:
* City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke
* The Master Magician - Charlie N. Holmberg
* The Algebraist - Iain M. Banks
* Hunters of Dune - Brian Herbert (in progress)
Non Fiction Pick:
* Command and Control - Eric Schlosser
- Revelation Space, by Alastair Reynolds - Quirky sci-fi novel with a xenoarchaeology angle
Hunters of Dune, by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson - I'm not recommending this one on the basis of the writing. I'd recommend it only to those who read all of Frank Herbert's original Dune series and have been hanging in suspense ever since because the cliffhanger ending of Chapterhouse Dune was never resolved due to Frank's untimely death. They based the book on Frank's outline, but it clearly would have been a better book if it had been written by Frank. Nonetheless, it is satisfying to resolve the unanswered questions: Who the heck are these Honored Matres and what were they running away from?
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings, by Jorges Luis Borges - This is kind of a quirky collection of short stories that are all mindbenders of one variety or another. The best description I can give of Borges is that reading him is kind of like solving puzzles.
Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, by Lain Hearn - Historical fiction set in feudal Japan with lords and their retainers, assassins, etc.
The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown - If you liked The Da Vinci Code or Angels & Demons, you'll probably like this one as well. While Dan Brown will probably never write anything that matches the utter genius of Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, he is entertaining in his own way and worth a read.
- I love sci-fi, but rather than recommend "sci-fi" books, I would recommend "speculative fiction" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction), which is "a fiction genre speculating about worlds that are unlike the real world in various important ways".
Good sci-fi is speculative fiction, but bad sci-fi is just "a story told in a sci-fi setting".
This is a good way of distinguishing between Dune by Frank Herbert (which speculates about many things, including the kind of universe that exists after a computer AI suppresses the human race and is then overthrown) and Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, which is a crap book that speculates about very little in a sci-fi setting.
If you think about it, starting a company that makes a new product is basically speculating about a world that is unlike our current world because of your product! Also, you should be speculating about how other technologies and products will affect our world, so you can adapt your company before it becomes extinct...
