Kevin Anderson Interview

[Gobalopper]

Amazon has posted a fairly good interview with Kevin Anderson, one of the authors of the Dune prequels. It talks about how they found the notes left behind by Frank Herbert as well as the writing process and future novels. Here is part of it:

Then, the very day after I came home, the estate lawyer called Brian and said, well, it's been 10 years since your fatherpassed away, and we just found two safe-deposit-box keys. He opened the boxes and found some letters and bills and things, as well as the complete outline for the seventh Dune book, the next novel Frank Herbert was supposed to write.

After that, Brian found, in the very back corner of his garage, a big box with Frank Herbert's handwriting on it with 1,300 pages of Dune notes, character biographies, histories, poetry, chapters he'd cut out, and an avalanche of materials. It was like finding the Dead Sea Scrolls. So we ransacked all of it and have been using as much of it as possible in the books.

To bad we aren't able to see the notes as well, maybe someday we will see some sort of new Dune Encyclopedia, but I wouldn't bet on it...