Journal lucasw's Journal: Dune: House Corrino by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Review of previous book in series: House Harkonnnen. This is the final book in the first Dune prequel trilogy. There's another trilogy about the Butlerian Jihad still in progress.
Occasionally stirring, frequently cartoonish and not completely integrated with Frank Herbert's books. The main reason to take this series more seriously than fan-fiction would be the semi-apocryphal recovered notes at the authors' disposal. If those notes were to be published it would be interesting to see how much content originated from the late Frank Herbert- but it's likely that they will have to milk as much out of the franchise as possible before that happens.
The climax seems much too climactic given that Dune makes no reference too them- I would have made it more subtle. A huge disaster for the entire Imperium is narrowly averted, but prophesies never warned of it beforehand nor do histories examine it closely after.
The sandworms are said to literally consume spice. My recollection of the lifecycle depicted in the original novels is weak, but this strikes a false note- I thought the worms produced the spice, as waste, and ate small creatures (microbes even) living in the sand similar to whales in oceans.
Later, Tleilaxu eyes are said to be metallic- this one also seems false: the Tleilaxu are profieient at genetic manipulation, not mechanical work.
One scene was unintentionally funny, and involved the annoying superpowers of the Bene Gesserit: Barely two paragraphs after attesting to Bene Gesserit sexual prowess, there is an unrelated mention of a special knot being tied "that no one but a Bene Gesserit could release without a knife." Perhaps the Boy Scouts were rolled into the Bene Gesserit organization in its early stages, and through centuries of censorship and manipulation their legendary knot capabilities were completely eradicated from public knowledge?
(spoiler)
A Tleilaxi researcher finds a women whose biology serves his evil research, but then has difficulty find more like her. Why not clone her?
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