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Alexander_Ordos · March 29, 2003

Look guys, I know this question came before but, what do you honestly think about the "Butlerian Jihad"? I've just got it from Germany, read 100 pages and it looks quite nice, shurely not Frank's style...but I like it anyway, they shurely achieved the effect of different Duniverse.

Now, not to make that topic another opinion spam, I'd like to discuss about some subjects, like Sorceresses of Rossak - did Zufa show real magic in the Parliament? Did I understand it correctly that Atreides aren't descendants of Atreus at all? :-

Vanguard3000 · March 29, 2003

Agammemnon (as in Andrew Skouros) I believe named himself after his anscestor, the real Agammemnon. The wierd thing is that, before the prequels, I thought no one knew of the Atreides lineage until Leto II. Oh well.

And I wasn't too thrilled with BJ. It was okay, but nothing spectacular.

TMA_1 · March 29, 2003

if you want a written version of battlestar galactica, then get it. I thought it was great fun. thats about it.

Alexander_Ordos · March 30, 2003

I've read up a little further and it looks like some of the parts were written by 14y boy ;D But the whole plot looks nice, even though it's very easy to guess what happens next. Reminds of the StarWars ;)

Khan · March 30, 2003

The bits with Selim were pretty cool. But the rest of it was just not as good as Frank.

Colonel_Worf · March 30, 2003

Just forget about Frank Herbert's style for a minute and enjoy the book. I loved it.

Alexander_Ordos · March 31, 2003

I'm on page 227 and I like the book ;) It looks like it has been written by atleast 4 different writers since the chapter style differs from each other :-

BTW. Did the Sorceress die aswell when creating a psychic firestorm that wiped out Barbarossa?

Vanguard3000 · March 31, 2003

Yes.

Davidu · April 1, 2003

The last Dune book I read was Dune7 by Brian.

Well, it looked to me like a shadow of the dune universe. I felt like in a cage on that icy Earth.

When reading the Dune books I always felt thirsty and I almost felt the sand and dust...

Dunenewt · April 1, 2003

The last Dune book I read was Dune7 by Brian.

:O You're joking, right?

Davidu · April 1, 2003

No...

I read the first series by Franck a few years ago...

And last year I found Dune7 in a library and I took it.

Nothing new since then...

Unfortunatelly. :'(

Andrew · April 1, 2003

umm by Dune 7 you mean the House atreides/harkonnen/Corrino right? as Dune 7 has not been created yet really.

Davidu · April 1, 2003

Dune7, the book of the 'brunds'... The action takes place on icy Earth... It is really old.

Andrew · April 1, 2003

!??!! much more info please as to how it is related to dune and if it takes place after chapterhouse dune, although I'm sure it is something different in teh duniverse.

"brunds"?

Oper90 · April 2, 2003

Dune 7 has not been written yet ... the books he is talking about are Prequels to Dune written by Brian Herbert and Anderson.

Emperor Harkonnen · April 2, 2003

nope, it is an APRIL JOKE! :D Nice one Davidu ;)

Alexander_Ordos · April 2, 2003

I'll laugh much more louder if Davidu proves he had Dune 7 :P

I'm on page 329, don't have much time to read :'( but it's getting more and more interesting... Rossak is doomed right? :-

Emperor Harkonnen · April 2, 2003

I am not saying anything :-X

Alexander_Ordos · April 2, 2003

Luckily, I got some time to read today, I'm on page 369, and now I must admit that I never saw a thinking machines (Droids, Cyborgs, etc...) so perfectly described in any SciFi book (I've read plenty), I mean the character, emotions and speech, it's just the right way... BJ looks like a marvell to me :- K.J.A or B.H or any other writer participating ;) did a nice job. This book is simply not a novell...

Davidu · April 2, 2003

Man! I'm not joking... I got borrowed it from a library!

I'll try to take it again, scan it and pot the cover. But it's translated into Romanian.

It's not a prequel... the action takes place long after the last novel. The whole Empire consists in only a few cities down below the ice crust of Earth.

At the surface the 'brunds' (some kind of tribes) battle for survival.

I'll try to prove myself right! >:(

Alexander_Ordos · April 2, 2003

I believe you Davidu,still, it can't possibly take place on Earth because, in the Dune books it's frequently mentioned that Earth was destroyed :-

Andrew · April 2, 2003

earth was not destroyed, as in no planet, it was eradicated of all life, but then I believe they replanted it and made it a park (see Dune Timeline)

Vanguard3000 · April 2, 2003

Alex: Earth wasn't completely destroyed. I think it was only damaged by something (i.e. a meteoroid strike, from the DE; or nuclear war).

TMA_1 · April 2, 2003

yeah vanguard is right. it was a small planetoid(!) too in the dune timeline.

Emperor Harkonnen · April 3, 2003

Alexander: when you finished reading BJ, you WILL know! look forward to the last part of the book ;) it is told what happened to earth.

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