![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Along for the ride is Lucilla, a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother, who is tasked with making sure Duncan is fighting for the right team. However, once the book reaches the 1/3 mark, things do pick up - and lo and behold, the book is actually pretty good! The story is complicated, so I won’t try to summarise it, other than to say that it focuses on the inner working of the Bene Gesserit and, of course, poor old Duncan is back again in ghola form.īut the stand out character that emerges in Heretics of Dune is definitely Miles Teg, the retired military commander and mentat who is brought back into service and given the unenviable task of escorting the latest Duncan safely to Arrakis. Maybe that’s a little harsh, but it is difficult to shake the feeling that Frank Herbert didn’t want to write any Dune books after the first one. And you know what? It kinda did.įirst of all, Heretics of Dune does indeed suffer from some of the foibles common among the Dune sequels - it’s overly long, and over-written often reaching for a kind of literary mastery that belies a very talented writer who is stuck writing crummy sci-fi and space opera. After the lacklustre snoozefest that was God Emperor of Dune, I was hoping this book would lift the franchise near to its potential. Heretics of Dune continues the long and sometimes bizarre Dune saga, which began with Frank Herbert’s original Dune, written in 1966. ![]()
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