Brian Herbert continues to befoul the Dune legacy by releasing prequel after prequel but this time he has gone too far. He has released a book which contains chapters and scenes cut from his dead father's (Frank Herbert) classic Dune and Dune Messiah.
Dune and Dune Messiah are among my favorite books. I've read Dune once a year for the past fifteen years and I've probably read Dune Messiah nearly as often. Frank Herbert, even on his worst days, could write circles around both his son and most scifi authors of his day. If Frank Herbert felt that chapters and scenes didn't fit into those two books, then by god they should never see the light of day.
This is another example of a disturbing trend. Dead scifi authors, giants in their field, are clawing at their coffin lids in righteous fury because two bit hacks are releasing new material set in the universes that they created. The Dune prequels were written by Brian Herbert and a goddamn Star Wars novelist. There are new books written by nobodies set in Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation world. Roger Zelazny's Amber series, a fantasy masterpiece, is also being picked apart my halfassed literary vultures.
I won't give you the title or a link to the new Dune book. It would be disrespectful to the dead.
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