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Brian Herbert has stated himself he is a very slow writer, so coupled with the fact that they've been churning these books out at roughly 1 per year and it becomes clear that Brian's name is first on the covers mainly to attempt and give them some credibility among Dune and Frank Herbert fans. He's well-known for his prolific rate (he is certainly an adherent of quantity over quality and doesn't even write books, he "dictahikes" them.that is, he dictates into a tape recorder while he hikes, and then pays someone to transcribe them.I couldn't even make something that ludicrous up, but he proudly details and describes this process incessantly on his blog and in interviews) and the stilted style and unoriginal/cliched ideas in the Dune books reads like anything out of any of his books.
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Anderson does the bulk, if not all, of the writing in all of these non-Frank Dune books.
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One more thing needs to be said, and that is the fact that it is well-known and pretty much accepted by most Dune fans that Kevin J.
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The other thing that beggars belief is that they felt they *HAD* to write the prequels.wouldn't the normal thing be for people to simply read or re-read Frank's books #1-6 in preparation for Dune 7? It becomes apparent later on why they decided to do this, and it's really shameful why. Even more astounding was that they announced that, instead of attempting to write Dune 7 by Frank's outline and notes, they were first going to write and publish *TWO* prequel trilogies to "lay the groundwork and reintroduce the book-buying public to Dune." (First, notice they said book *buying* and not book *reading* public.). Anderson, a writer of rather poor talent who is almost solely known for churning out pulp-style fluff in the Star Wars, X-Files, and comic-book novel franchises, as well as some rather underwhelming original works. Intending to complete the Dune saga, inexplicably he teamed up with Kevin J. In the late 1990s, Frank's son Brian announced that he had found two safety deposit boxes in his father's name that contained notes and an outline for Dune 7, as well as thousands of pages of other notes, drafts, outlines, etc from all of his father's work. When he died in 1986 after the publication of Chapterhouse:Dune (the 6th book in the series), fans were left with an open/cliffhanger ending that left us asking so many questions as to the identities of the mysterious watchers Marty and Daniel, as well as the fate of the small party aboard the fugitive no-ship and the fate of the Bene Gesserit after defeating the Honored Matres and beginning the task of assimilating them into their order. Marketed and hyped as part one of the long lost Dune 7, which was to be Frank Herbert's conclusion to his incredible and essential Dune saga, Hunters of Dune is neither essential nor overall faithful to Frank's vision. The real Dune fans know the score."Īnd I'll be like, "Frank.you are the man." And Frank will say, "No no.it is you who are the man." And we'll share a manly terrorist fist jab and walk off into the clouds. The thousands of rubes who read this shit thinking it's in any way part of the real Dune series, and not just third-rate fanfic, well, they had no real appreciation for my work anyway. Brian, bless his heart, if he could make a few bucks off of the family name and this crazy Dune thing I created, then so be it. But I'm a father, and what father doesn't want to provide for his family. When I do, I will fall on my knees and beg Frank for his forgiveness, for having wasted any amount of my life reading this ridiculous, insipid trash posing as a Dune book. If there is, and if, in the afterlife, you get to meet all the people who have lived before, throughout human history, then I hope I get to meet Frank Herbert. I hope I live a very long time, but I know that someday, like all human beings, I must die.