DUNE (Frank Herbert ) –
Genre: SciFi - Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards Rating -10/10
|This is a book which maps much of today’s religions, traditions, and human
adaptations into the background of a feud between two houses, with sinister and
mysterious communities acting in the background. A generations-long plan to
breed the ultimate being gets out of hand in the last generation with a result
that overcomes the same breeders. There is no actual main path of the story,
just as in everyday life, and each path has a story of its own, leaving
consequences to affect the other paths. Future-forecasting, beginning of a
religion, planet transformation, space-warp, monstrous worms, and a lot of
sand. The story is seamless, the details of the different cultures fascinating,
the whole book a awonderful journey. RECOMMENDED!
DUNE MESSIAH (Frank Herbert 1969) – 1st Sequel to DUNE – Rating 7/10
Although not as great as the first book, Duen Messiah includes further beings, races, and life-paths into the story that is DUNE. The religion of which the main character is the god, is getting out of hand, and he must find the way to stop it. Treason, friends back from the dead and offspring feature in this sequel.
CHILDREN OF DUNE (Frank Herbert 1976) – 2nd Sequel to DUNE – Rating 8/10
This book follows the passing from the child-adult to adult-adult of the Messiah’s offspring, the Abomination, the once-desert planet turned green-fertile-planet a threat to life, and the Prophet’s preachings against the planet’s religion. This one’s great.
GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE (Frank Herbert 1981) – 3rd Sequel to DUNE – Rating 9/10
The setting is barely what is remembered of the DUNE, but memories are still there. Three thousand years into the future, the God Emperor’s greatest pain is boredom. His own female army and his spice-monopoly secure him respect and obedience- but also hatred and multiple plans to kill his hideous semi-human semi-worm form. He is the cause of the Scattering, the explosion of humanity out of its planet into the unconquered lands of the galaxy.
HERETICS OF DUNE (Frank Herbert 1984) – 4th Sequel to DUNE – Rating 9/10
People from the Scattering are coming back, bringing back new technology, new threats to the Old World. The book ends with the destruction of planet DUNE, its worms and its spice, and most of the original communities met in the original DUNE. But one worm aboard a fleeing Bene Gesserit ship containing a number of unique members of the Dune world is the key to the new future.
CHAPTER HOUSE DUNE (Frank Herbert 1985) – 5th Sequel to DUNE – Rating 10/10
The Bene Gesserit’s last remaining worm is transforming their own planet into another Dune, whilst the Honoured Matres, the threat from the Scattering are destroying their colonies one by one. Two Reverend Mothers with a mind of their own have different palns of the future, each guaranteeing a secure future for the whole Galaxy.
DUNE HOUSE ATREIDES (Brian Herbert 1999)
1st Prequel to DUNE – Rating ??/10
This story will lay down the foundations of the whole story, giving detail to what led to the situations in which the reader finds the galaxy upon reading DUNE. Promises to be a wonderful book.