Ha.

[Mahdi]

In a new interview with the sci-fi wire, Anderson is claiming that there was also a c omplete outline for the Butlerian Jihad trilogy, much like there was for Dune seven, found in that safety deposit box.

[Andrew]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-03/23/12.00.books

Is the link. I would hope instead of them flooding the market with books, maybe they would use toys, miniseries and games. Maybe the odd spice cologne, but not their own books to make them look big. :(

[Caid Ivik]

Reminds me of 72-year old Italian with high-resolution CD-ROM about secret WW2 german projects of Moon colonization...

[Dunenewt]

Where's that???

[Filo]

Mahdi your question sends us back to this previous topic :

http://www.dune2k.com/forum/index.php?topic=13652.0

[Egeides]

If they had this from the beginning, how come they didn't say a thing about it? ::)

Personally, the first question I'd have for them would be "Can you prove it and show the sources?"

[Khan]

Pfft, they'd probably come out with something like 'Frank didn't want any of his unmade stuff mad public'.

[GhostHunter]

"You guys won't believe this, but we made the plot for the 7th and 8th novels and then found the notes, and amazingly...the plots are exactly the same! Man, good writer's think alike!" *Boysterous laugh*

[AeonGrey]

I'm sorry, but the story elements in Butlerian Jihad do not strike me at ALL as something that Frank Herbert would have come up with.  Way too typical Sci-fi....

[Tako]

I agree, don't think Frank Herbert would make up such a storyline

It would have had more dept I think when he had written it, shame though...

(this does'nt meen I didn't like the BJ or MC)

[GhostHunter]

It was sarcastic..

[TMA_1]

argh, it just isnt funny anymore. It frankly is pathetic. If Frank herbert came up with Cymeks, then I am the pope.

[Colonel_Worf]

It only says the outline for Dune 7 was found in the box... nothing about the prequels being in the box.

[nemafakei]

The question is, what happened to the notes that FH though of, but thought were too tacky/infeasible/inappropriate to use?

My guess is they've found some of them and used them. In fact, that would work precisely: They could say they're using his notes, they could write how they like, this explains why they WOULDN'T release notes with crossings-out they've used anyway, and this shows how they can come up with poor books.

[TMA_1]

good call nema, never thought of that.

[Inoculator9]

Lol, that's a fun hypothesis Nema :D

[driftingcloud]

Someone want to explain this?

SciFiWire interview quote:

9:00am ET, 23-March-04

Final Dune Sequels Due

"When we started going through all his notes we found these keys to a safe deposit box, and inside the safe deposit box was Frank Herbert's full and complete outline for what he called Dune Seven," Anderson said. "In it is his giant outline for the grand climax, which wraps up everything in the whole story."

Yet I read an interview with Byron Merrit, Frank's grandson, saying that the safe deposit box was found, but had to be drilled out because no one had any keys!  Something is fishy here!

[AeonGrey]

Someone want to explain this?

SciFiWire interview quote:

9:00am ET, 23-March-04

Final Dune Sequels Due

"When we started going through all his notes we found these keys to a safe deposit box, and inside the safe deposit box was Frank Herbert's full and complete outline for what he called Dune Seven," Anderson said. "In it is his giant outline for the grand climax, which wraps up everything in the whole story."

Yet I read an interview with Byron Merrit, Frank's grandson, saying that the safe deposit box was found, but had to be drilled out because no one had any keys!

[nemafakei]

Well, it's obvious, isn't it? Merrit was in fact a fake sent to deceive us and undermine the real notes: he was just a ghola-cymek-clone concocted by the Evil Conspirators, whose identity is revealed only in the all-singing, all dancing, two, no, THREE climactic, never-to-be-repeated books (hitherto known only as Dune 7, 8, and 9) whose outlines were hidden away in the previously undiscovered no-room found in the REAL safety-deposit box!

[Andrew]

You never cease to amaze me Nema. :)

[nemafakei]

BH and KJA never cease to amaze me...

[Vanguard3000]

Hmm... a box which causes great pain.  Where have I heard this before?  ;)

[Leto le Juste]

It is still the same debate: Do the notes exist? Who knows...

According to me, they would have done like Herg

[Vanguard3000]

Yes, that would have been extremely interesting.  I would have loved that.

Tintin... that's the reporter with the dog Snowy, right?

[Leto le Juste]

Tintin... that's the reporter with the dog Snowy, right?

Yes, "Tintin et Milou"