![]() It’s hardly unexpected Herbert’s writing would improve the more books he wrote, and Dune did a lot of heavy lifting in terms of world-building, casting a long shadow over its sequels. I’d always found the books actually increase in quality of prose, but the stories grow less interesting. At least, not until twenty years later - written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson, and based on Frank Herbert’s notes.Ĭommon wisdom has it the Dune books decrease in quality as the series progresses. It was followed by Chapterhouse: Dune (1985, USA), but Herbert’s death in 1986 meant no concluding volume ever appeared. ![]() The first of this new trilogy was Heretics of Dune (1984, USA). ![]() ![]() God Emperor of Dune (1981, USA) followed five years after the third book and, while clearly not a part of the original story, was very much an extension of its themes and the history of its universe.Īnd, after God Emperor of Dune, a new trilogy, set 1,500 years after the downfall of the God Emperor, Leto II, in a universe very much changed but still bearing traces both of the time of Dune and the effects of Leto II’s 3,500 years of “Golden Path”. In interviews, Frank Herbert often explained he’d conceived the original Dune trilogy - Dune (1965, USA), Dune Messiah (1969, USA) and Children of Dune (1976, USA) - as one story, charting the creation, and subsequent fall, of a messianic leader. ![]()
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