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SciFi Wire // SciFi.com
posted : 9 August 2006


New Dune Books Resume Story
John Joseph Adams



Best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson told SCI FI Wire that he and Brian Herbert based the sequel novels Hunters of Dune and the forthcoming Sandworms of Dune on notes for Dune 7 written by Brian's father, Dune creator Frank Herbert, prior to his 1986 death.

"We saw that Dune 7 would have been an epic that we didn't think we could tell in under 1,400 pages, so we broke it into two 700-page volumes," Anderson said in an interview. "In the last eight months I've been writing a blog on Dunenovels.com, describing the progress of the two volumes. We've been getting 1.7 million hits per month, so the excitement among the fans worldwide is really building."

Unlike the previous Anderson/Herbert collaborations, which were all prequels to Dune, Hunters of Dune picks up where the last Frank Herbert Dune novel left off. "In Chapterhouse Dune, the galaxy is being overrun by a group of evil, destructive women called the Honored Matres, sort of the dark counterparts of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood,"Anderson said. "They are enslaving populations, destroying planets, and at the end of the book we learn that the Honored Matres are actually on the run from an unidentified outside 'Enemy' that's even worse. Our main characters steal a ship as large as a city, destroy their navigation system and fly off into uncharted territory with the mysterious Enemy searching for them. That's where the book ends, and that's where fans were left for many years."

Anderson added: "In Hunters (and the subsequent volume, Sandworms), we follow Duncan Idaho and his comrades aboard the giant
fleeing ship, trying to keep away from the Enemy, because they know that something or someone aboard the ship holds the key to ending the great coming war and changing the universe. Meanwhile, the surviving Bene Gesserits try to rally the rest of humanity to make their final stand against a force that intends to exterminate them."


Anderson said that Frank Herbert's notes included a description of the story and a great deal of character background information. "But having a roadmap of the U.S. and actually driving across the country are two different things," he said. "Brian and I had a lot to work with and a lot to expand, now that we had Frank's original six novels and our six prequels to wrap up."

Although Hunters and Sandworms will conclude the original series as envisioned by Frank Herbert, Anderson and Brian Herbert plan to continue exploring the Dune universe. "We have already sold the first volume in the Paul of Dune trilogy, which will tell the story of Paul's younger years, his friendship with Duncan and Gurney and Duke Leto's War of Assassins against Grumman," Anderson said. "And it will also fill in the story between Dune and Dune Messiah, Paul's great Jihad, Princess Irulan's task of building the legend of Muad'Dib, Shaddam's bid for a return to power: Certainly there's enough to fill a couple of books!"
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SciFi Wire // SciFi.com
posted : 9 August 2006


New Dune Books Resume Story
John Joseph Adams





Best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson told SCI FI Wire that he and Brian
Herbert based the sequel novels Hunters of Dune and the forthcoming
Sandworms of Dune on notes for Dune 7 written by Brian's father, Dune
creator Frank Herbert, prior to his 1986 death.


"We saw that Dune 7 would have been an epic that we didn't think we could
tell in under 1,400 pages, so we broke it into two 700-page volumes,"
Anderson said in an interview.
"In the last eight months I've been writing a blog on Dunenovels.com,
describing the progress of the two volumes. We've been getting 1.7 million
hits per month, so the excitement among the fans worldwide is really building."





Unlike the previous Anderson/Herbert collaborations, which were all
prequels to Dune, Hunters of Dune picks up where the last Frank Herbert
Dune novel left off.


"In Chapterhouse Dune, the galaxy is being overrun by a group of evil,
destructive women called the Honored Matres, sort of the dark counterparts
of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood,"
Anderson said.

"They are enslaving populations, destroying planets, and at the end of the
book we learn that the Honored Matres are actually on the run from an
unidentified outside 'Enemy' that's even worse. Our main characters steal a
ship as large as a city, destroy their navigation system and fly off into
uncharted territory with the mysterious Enemy searching for them.
That's where the book ends, and that's where fans were left for many years."


Anderson added: "In Hunters (and the subsequent volume, Sandworms),
we follow Duncan Idaho and his comrades aboard the giant fleeing ship,
trying to keep away from the Enemy, because they know that something or
someone aboard the ship holds the key to ending the great coming war and
changing the universe. Meanwhile, the surviving Bene Gesserits try to rally
the rest of humanity to make their final stand against a force that intends
to exterminate them."





Anderson said that Frank Herbert's notes included a description of the
story and a great deal of character background information.


"But having a roadmap of the U.S. and actually driving across the country
are two different things,"
he said.

"Brian and I had a lot to work with and a lot to expand, now that we had
Frank's original six novels and our six prequels to wrap up."





Although Hunters and Sandworms will conclude the original series as
envisioned by Frank Herbert, Anderson and Brian Herbert plan to continue
exploring the Dune universe.


"We have already sold the first volume in the Paul of Dune trilogy, which
will tell the story of Paul's younger years, his friendship with Duncan and
Gurney and Duke Leto's War of Assassins against Grumman,"
Anderson said.
"And it will also fill in the story between Dune and Dune Messiah, Paul's
great Jihad, Princess Irulan's task of building the legend of Muad'Dib,
Shaddam's bid for a return to power:
Certainly there's enough to fill a couple of books!"




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WTF would Irulan be "tasked" with building the legend of Muad'dib?

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Maybe if the BG were CERTAIN they were going to inherit his empire but at that point the BG weren't sure of the difference between their ass and a hole in the ground.

I don't recall Paul asking her to do anything like that, or am I forgetting something? :?
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All I can remember is him saying something like that to Chani,
"I hear she has literary ambition/fancies herself an historian, well I hope for her because she'll have nothing else from me"

If anything, she was given a toy to play with out of pity, no way it was a "task".
In short, the Jihad is over. It ended just as SandRider predicted it would, not with a bang or even a whimper, by simple attrition.
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The fact is completely opposite of what is implied in his statement. If anything Paul wanted his myth torn down, not built up by her. Neither do I think Paul had that much control over her beyond, "you can't have my baby or anyone elses and if you do I'll kill you".
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I think that this is probably a pretty good indicator of what's wrong with kj, if we could get enough shit like this to establish/confirm which breakers have opened between his ears.

I'm dreaming... "Golly Kevin, your problem is that you think Irulan made Muad'Dib a legend. Fix that mistaken notion & you're well on your way to writing mcDune that people might care about."


A theory that produces a predictable result would be an interesting thing to play with.
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