Sheeana's generous lips held an elusive smile. "Studying battles again, Miles? It's a bad thing for a military commander to be so predictable." I’m a huge Dune fan and just re-read Frank Herbert’s six books for the third time through. The franchise is one of my favourites, and reading Dune in high-school for the first time really resonated with me as it’s such a powerful coming of age story. Trillions of humans over tens of thousands of years had exhibited a latent racial prescient ability. In myths and legends, the same prediction kept cropping up - the End Times, titanic battles that signaled epic changes in history and society. And, deep in the hold of their giant ship, the refugees carry the last surviving sandworms from devastated Arrakis, as they search the universe for a new Dune. To paraphrase Roger Ebert: I hated this book. Hated hated hated hated hated this book. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant reader-insulting moment of it.

Herbert's creation of this universe, with its intricate development and analysis of ecology, religion, politics, and philosophy, remains one of the supreme and seminal achievements in science fiction.” — Louisville Times on Dune A distanza di 20 anni, suo figlio Brian tenta la folle impresa provando a terminare l'opera del padre. Immaginate di veder ritoccare la Gioconda o la Cappella Sistina con una bomboletta spray. The fabric of the universe is connected by threads of thought and tangled alliances. Others may glimpse parts of the pattern, but only we can decipher all of it. We can use that information to form a deadly net in which to trap our enemies. My biggest gripe with this book, if you can believe it, is that it's damn near impossible to take it and the authors claims serious that this was faithfully based on Frank's notes and outline when it has NUMEROUS references and tie-ins to their completely unnecessary prequels. Stupid characters and references to their books are thrown in left and right, and the worst part is the surprise "reveal" of the Unknown Enemy who turns out to be...the robots/machines from their prequels! So I'm supposed to believe Frank intended the villains of Dune 7 to be two characters KJA and BH would create 20 years later? I know Muad'Dib had prescience, but apparently Frank Herbert did, too...amazing.Now, I do miss Frank's way of writing. It's much denser, much more clever, full of unique insights and wisdoms, and thousands of wonderful idea-laden easter eggs that sometimes never get explored but still make us pause and wonder. The kind of intricate plotting and philosophical musings that would make the elder Herbert proud.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Dune: The Butlerian Jihad Though the Honored Matres had destroyed all Bene Tleilax worlds, their descendants (the Lost Tleilaxu) have returned from the Scattering. They use the shape-stealing Face Dancers for espionage, until the Face Dancers kill the Tleilaxu Elder Burah and replace him with a duplicate. It is revealed that they have replaced all the Lost Tleilaxu Elders, as well as countless humans on various planets in the Old Empire. Their leader Khrone sends the scribe Uxtal to serve the rebel Honored Matre leader Hellica, who has proclaimed herself Matre Superior and now rules the conquered Bene Tleilax homeworld, Tleilax. These women are supposed to be the strongest, slyest, most intelligent creatures in the universe! This story depicts them as not being able to intuit things better than lower level non-BGs in the same room? I am offended. They also have the BGs showing emotions in front of strangers (would never happen) and being outsmarted by Tleilaxu?!!? I don't think so!! At least not in the elementary way they imagine.

Liptak, Andrew (September 13, 2016). "The authors of Navigators of Dune on building an epic, lasting world". The Verge . Retrieved July 24, 2019. Any word from Duncan yet?" he asked, trying to divert her attention. "He was attempting a new navigation algorithm to get us away from—" The text at times reads almost like YA, to the extent that too much is explained. Consider the first example from my marginalia: we know that the Chapterhouse no-ship is the Ithaca, and yet we are told what Ithaca is geographically and mythologically, and then: "Similarly, Duncan and his companions needed a place to call home, a safe haven. These people were on their own great odyssey, and without so much as a map or a star chart" (25). Okay, yeah? Numerous other examples might be cited, rapidly moving from merely tedious to somewhat insulting Illusion, Miles. Illusion is their way. The fashioning of false impressions to achieve real goals, that is how the Tleilaxu work.Fleeing from the Honored Matres in a no-ship, Duncan Idaho leads a group of refugees into the unknown depths of space. But an unknown and deadly enemy is closing in, and the only hope for the future lies with the heroes of the past . . . I tried getting through the House trilogy about 15 years ago and lost interest even though there’s a lot of interesting world building there. Prethodnica je prethodnica no svakog Duneljupca