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- At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune's past--including Paul Muad'Dib and Lady Jessica--to use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them.
Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in two safe-deposit boxes for a decade, Sandworms of Dune will answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades: the origin of the Honored Matres, the tantalizing future of the planet Arrakis, the final revelation of the Kwisatz Haderach, and the resolution to the war between Man and Machine. This breathtaking new novel in Frank Herbertâs Dune series has enough surprises and plot twists to please even the most demanding reader.
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- Posted on 2008-07-18
It could have been worse.
SANDWORMS OF DUNE is the latest entry in Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's series of DUNE fill-in-the-cracks novels. Having completed their 1950s-vintage back story for the "jihad" against artificial intelligence that was part of the unexplained matrix of the original DUNE, Herbert and Anderson project that back story into the future (relative to Herbert's final DUNE novel, CHAPTERHOUSE DUNE), completing what they started in HUNTERS OF DUNE.
It's not difficult to make fun of the stiff, sometimes comically awkward writing in these novels. It's not difficult to wail about the ridiculousness of so many of the plot developments. It's not difficult to go on and on about how abysmally silly and awful Omnius and Erasmus are as characters and as a thread in the DUNE narrative -- it just isn't possible that Frank Herbert had anything like these monstrosities in mind when he thought about humanity's rejection of artificial intelligence. But ...
It's not difficult to read this novel and enjoy at least some of it. I did not feel compelled to throw the book across the room. I did not find myself skipping over paragraphs because they were too tedious (as I have, e.g., in Charles Stross' Merchant Princes novels--and I like Stross a lot more than I like these guys). Some parts were even page-turning suspenseful. In bestselling SF novels, these are things to be happy about.
Would I rather have spent my time reading a new novel by McLeod or Stross or Asher or Reynolds any one of several other authors? Sure, but there aren't any, and until there are ... there's SANDWORMS OF DUNE.
Score: 3
- Posted on 2008-07-14
It's not that bad
when I got 20 pages into House Harkonen after sitting through the House Atreides on Tape during a really long drive, I threw it in the trash becasue it read more like fan fiction than something from Frank Herbert's Universe.
But After reading all the original Dune books, I couldn't resist Hunters of Dune. Wich I thought was alright, so I went and read the Butlerian Jihad Books, Wich were entertaining. So Now that I finished Sandworms of Dune, I can honestly say, It's not Frank Herbert But it is a fun read, and you get to see alot of your favorite charcters again. So to me that was worth it. and I think it does tie everything up nicely.
I also change shape.
Score: 4
- Posted on 2008-07-10
Spice agony is probably better than reading this
As for "Hunters of Dune" and "Sandworms of Dune" (and let's face it, you can't take one without the other), all I can say is that I really, really hope that somewhere out in the cosmos is a no-ship with Frank Herbert's ghola on board, and he's busy typing his version of the conclusion of the Dune saga, because this stuff is just not that good.
Score: 2
- Posted on 2008-07-09
Dune has become a sad addiction
So, Dune could be my favorite sci-fi book and I'm a dedicated Dune reader. Which means that even though I have learned that anything written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson isn't going to be quite to par, I pick it up anyway. This hadn't been a real issue until recently. Well, this book was actually disappointing. It was just bad. Writing, story, characters- just bad. But the wrost part is I know they are going to put out another book and I'm going to read it too! Boys, its time to leave the series be- Let daddy Herbet have a little peace in the after life, seriously. And next time you two write something, for my sake don't try to slip it into the dune series.
Score: 2 - Posted on 2008-06-30
Extremely Dissapointing Conclusion
If you like to see everything you care about (i.e. the millenium-long human cause against the machines and the heros and billions of people that died to combat them) mean nothing and the whole series of Dune heros that are brought back have meanlingness roles, then you will love this novel. What the heck were Anderson and Herbert thinking when they plotted this dismal conclusion? And why did we need to read hundreds of pages on the internal wars on the Honored Matres in these two final books when they didn't even play a role in the conclusion? The characters you want to suceed, and the long awaited final victory of man over machine do not happen in this novel. And not only that, it makes most of the previous Dune works inconsequental, as those plots and characters don't impact the ridiculous ending that H&A came up with. What a sad conclusion given that the 4 novels preceding this by H&A seemed to be building towards a spectactular conclusion. Maybe some day they will go back to the drawing board on completely redo the Dune Conlcusion novel(s) -- they could treat Sandworms of Dune as a dream that Idaho has while in the shower akin to that really bad season on Dallas in the 80's where we learned later that is was just Bobby's bad shower dream. This novel is the book equivalent to the sf movie, Highlander 2 - The Quickening -- i.e. a movie that wanted to make you throw up and forget about it, but that nevertheless was so inept and depressing to your senses that you kept getting irrated about it for years afterwards.
Score: 1