![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, we've got the continuation of the separation of Paul the man and Paul the legend, but that had already been happening naturally and even more impressively during God Emperor of Dune, with more tongue-in-cheek, better analysis, and better heartbreaking commentary. In THEORY, I might have even LOVED the ideas presented here, building the reasons for the full political nastiness in Children of Dune, the reversals, the tragedies.īut what we've got here is not only Dune-lite, but a larger embellishment of Bronso, the Ixian, which had no mention in the originals. In THEORY, this might have been a fine novel. Yes, it attempts to slide around in that delicate area of Paul's EMPIRE and Paul's full decline. Yes, this slips in between the 2nd and 3rd novels of Frank Herbert's Dune series. No matter how competently a novel can be written, and this is absolutely a COMPETENT novel, it must still fit in the full chronology of the original series. ![]()
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