About this title: "Hunters of Dune" and the concluding volume, "Sandworms of Dune," bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780765351487ISBN:076535148X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780765312921ISBN:0765312921
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780765351487ISBN:076535148X
Description: Grade: B. Catalog: Science Fiction General Synopsis: 563 pages. Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert'... read more
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780765351487ISBN:076535148X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Classics
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780765312921ISBN:0765312921
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Tor Classics
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780765351487ISBN:076535148X
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Binding: S Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tor Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780765351487ISBN:076535148X
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Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction, New York, NY
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780765351487ISBN:076535148X
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2006-08-22
ISBN-13:9780765312921ISBN:0765312921
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"Dune is a wonderful and complex series of stories dealing with many challenging ideas of politics and religion.
That being said I chose not to reread any of the original novels before reading this one. Amazingly this novel had none of the insights and complexities that made the original novels great. However given the scope of events and time that passes in the novel I can't for the life of me see this book as a bad thing. No novel written such as this one and it's sequal could have the impact or the gravitas of the originals. Yet the authors knew this going in. While it began to unravel the mysteries and bring the epic story to it's end it was written well. I find no fault in this novel it served it's basic goal. Entertainment. and for that alone it is worth reading"
"The ?Ithaca? piloted by Duncan is folding in unknown parts of space, in order to escape the tachyon net of the old man and the old woman. The Spacing Guild Administrators go to Ix, to find a way to pilot their ships without the aid of spice (desperately needed by the Navigators), because of what Murbella has demanded from them and what she will not give. Because of the Guild?s help to the Honored Matres in destroying Rakis, the Guild will get no spice unless they prove their loyalty to the Bene Gesserit. The Face Dancer leader Khrone, sends Uxtal (the only one of the Lost Tleilax), to serve Matre Superior Hellica, whom is instructed to produce the drug used by the Honored Matres in axlotl tanks. Khrone is doing the work of the old man and the old woman by having Uxtal make the gholas Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and Paul Atreides (Paolo). On the ?Ithaca?, Scytale is desperate to make a ghola of himself, for he is dying. The nullentrophy capsule is his only way of getting his ghola. His hidden secret is powerful enough, that his is allowed his ghola after the first few have been made. Back on Chapterhouse, Murbella?s Valkyries are attacking those Honored Matres on other planets, which refuse to integrate with the Bene Gesserits, to become one powerful group against the great unknown enemy. Murbella accesses Other Memory to learn of the origin of the Honored Matres. And on the no-ship, Sheanna stops the ghola program because of the warning given to her by Sayyadina Ramallo of Arrakis. Also, the children gholas are expressing dangerous and threatening actions of their past lives, to the ?Ithaca?s? current situation. Usul takes enough spice to induce a vision of his death, but not to awaken his memories. The old man and woman inform Khrone that they have no need of his Paul ghola, because of the trap they have set when the ?Ithaca? discovers the Handlers. Khrone goes ahead, and awakens the Baron?s memories, but it comes with the price of the abomination Alia haunting him in his head. In the final assault on Tleilax by Murbella, the Waff ghola finds refuge with the Navigator Edrik, by offering not only spice but sandworms! The book ends with Murbella in control of the Honored Matres and Bene Gesserits, as she intends to launch an offensive attack on the Enemy, revealed to be Omnius. Now a new version of the Evermind, determined to destroy mankind. In contrast, the Oracle of Time is revealed to be Norma Cenva!"
"(Note: don't bother reading this if you've read what I wrote about Sandworms of Dune. It's the same thing.)
I recently revisited Frank Herbert's entire Dune series for the first time in close to twenty years. I re-read Dune itself every few years, and it's among the most brilliant and imaginative books I've ever read, science fiction or not. I recall being underwhelmed by the remaining books in the series. Upon rereading them, however, I came to realize how much of my problem with the five later Dune books came from my being too young (in my teens) to really understand what Herbert was trying to do, and, perhaps more importantly, why he was trying to do it. By the end of the series, the teenage version of me was essentially just flipping from one page to the next, without much actually registering-including the cliffhanger ending of Chapterhouse: Dune. I basically put the book down and immediately looked forward to reading something I could understand.
Upon my second time through the whole series, I was pleasantly surprised by how much more sense the second through sixth books of the series made. (I didn't get any smarter between my teens and thirties, but I am a better reader) And that translated into a much more enjoyable read. The series still didn't knock my socks off-I think Herbert's reputation wouldn't have suffered, and might even have been strengthened, had he published Dune and then never written another word-but the latter books were much better-written and intriguing than I remembered.
Intriguing enough, in fact, that I felt a small surge of interest when I found that Herbert's son, Brian, and another author had used Herbert's notes to conclude the series with Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune. I was leery of the new books, because I couldn't think of many cases where something great (or close to it) can be taken over by somebody else and still maintain its greatness (Tim Burton's Batman movies in comparison to Joel Schumacher's Batman movies, for example). But nevertheless I checked both books out from the library, expecting to be moderately disappointed.
As it turns out, moderate disappointment would have been great news. I thought both of these books were awful. One of the things that intrigued me most about Frank Herbert's books is his dealing with characters that, while human, are exceptional not only physically but also mentally-even the ones not gifted with prescience are brilliant, far-seeing, controlled, and clever, their dialogue oblique, clever, and packed with meaning that it takes the average dope like myself hard work and some time to follow.
The characters in Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune have none of this. Characters that, in previous Dune novels have represented the not just physically but also mentally advanced products of thousands of years of crafty genetic planning, are reduced to shrill, irrational, over-emotional children.
Herbert (the younger) and Anderson also seem to have no concept of many of their characters' basic motivations-motivations that have been well-established over the couple thousand pages of previous novels. In Frank's hands, characters' decisions were usually made (or forced) based on a clear vision of their futures, and both their successes and their failures, their glory and their dooms, are accepted either nobly or shamefully; in Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune, decisions are made by whatever headless chicken is currently running around at the front of the pack, while the rest are often frozen by fear of the unknown.
My arguments might stand up better if I could quote specific instances of these complaints, but that'd require re-reading the books, and it's not worth it. I should have stopped with Chapterhouse: Dune and its cliffhanger ending."
"loved the original _Dune_ but never really got into the follow-up novels. I've enjoyed the "prequels" that Brian Herbert wrote about the Butlerian Jihad etc. This one, I don't know. The story itself has promise, but he's sort of ham-handed with the writing. I feel like there were incidents that could have been alluded to in a different way, that perhaps would not make me feel like my copy of the book was missing a few paragraphs. (OK, he's not his father, he acknowledges that in the foreword.)"
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