Thank you for the list! Let's see what the library has to offer. Joined Feb 12, Messages 3, Dune books are like Bebe's kids. Hoooly cow, that was an amazing post, thank you my jolly Hobbit! Yeah, turns out I've only read the first Dune, though it's strange that it's split up into three chapter purporting to be three books spread over the one book, I was puzzled by the third book only being pages or whatever it was long.
Hubba hubba! AthenaGaia Registered User. Joined Sep 29, Messages Welcome Reah. Great posts, Hobbit! I've only read the original novel, Dune. I loved Dune , but I haven't read much else in that universe. Thanks for your posts, I didn't know the exact order of how everything fitted in. Stephen Palmer Author of novels. Joined Apr 30, Messages 1, I loved the next two as well. Despite my loathing of God Awful Of Dune, the two that followed were pretty good imo.
The reception for what followed I think says it all…. Stephen Palmer said:. Children Of Dune is really good, I liked it a lot. Wow, that Bruce Pennington cover did help though Figment Registered User. Joined Aug 4, Messages Hobbit said:. Chapterhouse: Dune Joined Mar 8, Messages Werthead Registered User.
Joined Jul 6, Messages 3, Everything else is grave-robbing fanfiction written for money and in a manner that was massively, intellctually dishonest, not to mention being utterly awful to read. Dune by Frank Herbert moved up to the top spot, which is certainly connected to the release of the movie in theaters.
We expected to see the book move up the list. There was also a new Dune book to make it to the list. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert joined the list in 13th place, which is certainly to do with the new movie. As for third place, that remained the same from the previous week.
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles held onto the spot it climbed to during the previous week. There were a few new books on the list of most sold Amazon books last week. A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer L. Armentrout was the highest new addition of the week, getting into sixth place. There is a new addition for the kids. The Halloween books have started to move down the list. Spice mining is dangerous, not just because of sandstorms and nomad attacks, but because the noise attracts giant sandworms, behemoths many hundreds of metres in length that travel through the dunes like whales through the ocean.
Have the Harkonnens really given up Dune, this source of fabulous riches? Of course not. Treachery and tragedy duly ensue, and young Paul survives a general bloodbath to go on the run in the hostile open desert, accompanied, unusually for an adventure story, by his mum.
Paul is already showing signs of a kind of cosmic precociousness, and people suspect that he may even be the messiah figure foretold in ancient prophecies. His mother, Jessica, is an initiate of the great female powerbase in an otherwise patriarchal galactic order, a religious sisterhood called the Bene Gesserit.
Witchy and psychically powerful, the sisters have engaged in millennia of eugenic programming, of which Paul may be the culmination. For Smith, altered states of consciousness were mainly tools for the whiteous and righteous to vaporise whole solar systems of subversives, aliens and others with undesirable traits. Herbert, by contrast, was no friend of big government.
He had also taken peyote and read Jung. In , a sailing buddy introduced him to the Zen thinker Alan Watts , who was living on a houseboat in Sausalito. Every fantasy reflects the place and time that produced it. If The Lord of the Rings is about the rise of fascism and the trauma of the second world war, and Game of Thrones , with its cynical realpolitik and cast of precarious, entrepreneurial characters is a fairytale of neoliberalism, then Dune is the paradigmatic fantasy of the Age of Aquarius.
Remember that European beach grass binding together those shifting dunes? Paul Atreides is a young white man who fulfils a persistent colonial fantasy, that of becoming a God-king to a tribal people. Fremen culture is described in words liberally cribbed from Arabic. They are tough, proud and relatively egalitarian. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Prelude to Dune trilogy begins with this story of the generation before Dune ; namely, Leto Atreides, father of Paul. In House Atreides , we see how Leto's rivalries and relationships sowed the catalyzing events of Dune.
We also meet Abulurd Rabban, brother and foil to the Baron. Turns out, there are good people in House Harkonnen—who knew? In House Corrino , Brian and Anderson conclude their prequel series, bringing the story up to the climactic events set to unfold in Dune. This tapestry of politics, warmongering, and spice battles ends with the birth of Paul Atreides, teeing us up to the saga we know and love and now, have already read.
The first installment, The Butlerian Jihad , digs into an event Herbert often referred to, but never captured at scale: the long-ago war where humans fought for their freedom from "the thinking machines. The thinking machines fight back, refusing to go quietly into that good night; meanwhile, on Arrakis, a band of outlaws take their first steps to becoming the Fremen, a race of people that OG Dune fans know and love. Check out that sandworm on the cover! The Legends of Dune trilogy concludes with The Battle of Corrin , which tees up a final apocalyptic showdown between humans and robots.
Fans of Dune know how this one ends, but it sure is fun to see how Herbert and Anderson get there. Dune Sequels , a two-volume spin-off series, concludes the storyline from Herbert's six original novels, with insight from a long-lost outline that was found hidden in one of Herbert's safety deposit boxes.
In Hunters of Dune , we pick up with the escaping fugitives last seen at the end of Chapterhouse Dune , as they strengthen their powers and fight for the future of the human race.
Herbert and Anderson tie up more burning questions in this second volume of the Dune Sequels series: namely, the future of Arrakis and the outcome of the war between Man and Machine.
Just how did Paul gain control of the Empire? Read Paul of Dune to find out. Heroes of Dune continues with this second and final installment, set after the events of Dune Messiah. The Winds of Dune picks up after Paul Atreides' disappearance into the Arrakis desert, leaving the Empire in crisis and the line of succession in question.
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