This is awesome!
I read the original Dune as a kid, and i was a lil' too young to get it. Think i understood maybe every other word or something. Read it a few years later and got it more the second time around. Well i made it through Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, Chapterhouse Dune... and then the unthinkable happened. I went to the bookstore looking for the seventh book and... ACK!!! There was no seventh book! Went and asked when it might be out and was told that Frank Herbert had DIED before he could finish the story. And Chapterhouse Dune ends on a TOTAL FUCKING CLIFFHANGER!!!!
For ages my rule for books has been NEVER another incomplete series. Of course i break that rule all the time, but no-one said i had to be logically consistant.
Well, praise Bhudallah, the two guys writing the new Dune novels (Brian Herbert, Frank's son, and Kevin J. Anderson) found like 1500 pages of Frank Herbert's notes for Dune 7 and have split it into two books. The first of which "Hunters of Dune" is on the stands as we speak, and the second "Sandworms of Dune" is due out next august.
It's not Frank Herbert, but i'll take what i can get. Something i never thought i'd see. The end to the Dune series.
Madcap is a happy, happy, Madcap.
If anyone likes these books, i urge you to give the stuff by B. Herbert and Anderson a try. Good books.



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