god emperor

[fran]

im re-reading GE for i wanted to find the spot in which norma and her spacefolding technology are talked about, as was hinted in another thread...when i found a phrase identical to an 'incipit' (or however you call those sentences at the beginnin of a chapter)

in MC (page 370 in the nel uk paperback edition): "there are no closed systems. time simply runs out for the observer"-the legend of selim wormrider-

in GE (8th chapter) the sentences are inverted but i think the words must be just the same (im reading a translation) now...do you think that some hidden link was intended? or was it only a very good sounding sentence so that it was used in the prequels too?

hope this question doesnt sound too silly, it really makes me wonder... :O

[Wolf]

It was probably a phrase or saying that Herbert liked so much that he put it in his book. Only, what do you mean by "MC"?

[fran]

machine crusade!  :)

i saw y'all use many abbreviations...  8)

[Wolf]

Well, despite the obvious differences between the original series and the prequels (mostly due to the fact that they were written by different writers, and yes, Brian Herbert is not his father), the fact that Machine Crusade was probably written with the intent to maintain the same basic points that the original Dune seris, including God Emperor, made, it is more than likely that we'll see some of the same philosophical one-liners.

[Tio_Holtzmann]

i know it's mentioned in a discussion.  either between leto and sister chenoeh or between him and moneo.

[nemafakei]

When we said we wanted them to use FH's material, we meant his unpublished material, not fill their books out with stuff we've already read!