Several New Dune Novels...

[Inoculator9]

Has anyone else heard this:

In a major deal, Tor Books and Hodder & Stoughton (UK) have contracted with Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson for more DUNE novels. The deal includes:

The two-volume "grand climax" to the DUNE chronicles, HUNTERS OF DUNE and SANDWORMS OF DUNE, based directly on the "Dune 7" outline written by Frank Herbert; 

THE ROAD TO DUNE, a compendium of never-before-published chapters from DUNE and DUNE MESSIAH; and

Original stories and a short novel written by Brian and Kevin. 

THE ROAD TO DUNE will be published in the interim while Brian and Kevin are writing HUNTERS and SANDWORMS. As part of the contract, Tor Books has also included the first volume in the "Paul of Dune" trilogy.

[Mahdi]

Yeah, that's pretty old.

[Andrew]

The news at dunenovels.com is only 10 days old.

http://www.dunenovels.com/news/dune_update2.html

http://www.thealienonline.net/ao_030.asp?tid=1&scid=1&iid=2239

[Mahdi]

Maybe the conditions of the deal are new, but those books have been in production for a very long time.

[Inoculator9]

I'm sure they have, but nobody seemed to be giving it much discussion... so ;) I'm sorry Mahdi. I can never do anything to impress you :(

[Mahdi]

Quick search using the crappy-ass search engine that tends to miss a whole lot brings up two pages of topics for Paul of Dune, going back 2 years.

Road to Dune brought up about half a page of topics, going back just as far.

[Inoculator9]

Sure, but this is an official announcement. I've doen similar searches myself. You could run a search on me and get dozens of pages too, lol.