garth Posted December 8, 2001 Share Posted December 8, 2001 One part of the book really bothers me:In it, Anirul prevents Shaddam IV from giving birth to any male children, which explains why he had only 5 daughters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ordos45 Posted December 8, 2001 Share Posted December 8, 2001 If we went through the new books to find every major discrepancy then, oh wait we would be editors and get payed big bucks for it, or big pounds whichever is your unit of money depending on your country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahdi Posted December 9, 2001 Share Posted December 9, 2001 Whats this, a continuity error in House Corrinno? Oh my, what a surprise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garth Posted December 9, 2001 Author Share Posted December 9, 2001 They would've had to read 2 paragraphs of the original Dune to fix this.Oh well I still like the book, even though I don't understand how the female can determine the sex of a child since it's the male who contributes the Y chromosome to the embryo.....That's from the original book too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quoudam72 Posted December 11, 2001 Share Posted December 11, 2001 Shaddam that could be what happened they did not read the original Dune before making sure that the prequel was in accordance with what Frank Herbert wrote.Also what you said about the sex of the child is true not because of what the book said but because of nature itself. Oh and remember these Bene Gesserits are 'witches' of a sort so trickery is present.Mahdi has pointed this out several times (discrepanies) about the content of the writers prequel novels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dportela Posted December 30, 2001 Share Posted December 30, 2001 I'd like to point out that with every insemination there are millions of the little guys headed towards the egg. A Bene Gesserit is fully aware of every element in her body down to the molecular level, and can control it. It would be a simple thing to allow only a sperm with an XY configuration to penetrate the egg. ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemafakei Posted December 30, 2001 Share Posted December 30, 2001 The BG had to make sure that there were no sons, or the son would take precedent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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