The Sword and Laser discussion

Fans of Dune may be interested in hearing about how Frank Herbert went about creating the series:

http://moodleshare.org/mod/page/view....

I love it and at the same time it removes a bit of the magic from Dune which is a little sad.

Nice find.

Frank's "Dune" work is great, his son's is an Alia-level abomination

Fresno Bob wrote: "Frank's "Dune" work is great, his son's is an Alia-level abomination"

Nuff said! :)

Fresno Bob wrote: "Frank's "Dune" work is great, his son's is an Alia-level abomination"

It was best described to me as feeling like fanfiction: a nice tribute to the original but definitely not confused with the original.

Misses the tone and the quality of Dune.

A fan fiction is a celebration and a salute to the original artwork. If nothing, a fanfiction would try to be loyal to the original story. What Brian Herbert did was much much worse. He did his best to destroy his father's work, he blantantly lied about "a secret manuscript for future books in a forgotten safe"; changed and polluted all the history of the Duneverse with his ridiculous prequels and sequels. And he did all that just for money. I wonder if he secretly hated his father and wanted to destroy his life's work, or was he just greedy and not talented enough to create something of his own.