So it seems to be prequels and spin-offs past a certain point and mostly written by an author who is not on the same level as the original author, right?
First chunk of the series is by the original author Frank Herbert, then his son Brian started helping for the next chunk of books. Then Frank died and his son found materials in a forgotten safety deposit box (or so the claim goes) and Brian wrote some more books with help from some other people who’d helped in previous books.
From my experience, the farther along the books go, they shift to being less Dune and slide into a more typical Sci-Fi/Fantasy with Dune-y aesthetics.
More like explaining things that didn’t need to be explained.
spoiler
The Butlerian Jihad is wrapped up, pretty sure the explanation of what the Golden Path was supposed to lead humanity to overcome is revealed/resolved, the reasons for the conflict in the third book are wrapped up with the resolution of the Butlerian Jihad being finished. So kind of consequential if you wanted the story to “end” but then the series stops being a metaphor about things (like the first part of the books could be argued for) and just a regular sci-fi story.
So it seems to be prequels and spin-offs past a certain point and mostly written by an author who is not on the same level as the original author, right?
The first six books are original. The others are written by Bryan and are generally not liked.
got it
First chunk of the series is by the original author Frank Herbert, then his son Brian started helping for the next chunk of books. Then Frank died and his son found materials in a forgotten safety deposit box (or so the claim goes) and Brian wrote some more books with help from some other people who’d helped in previous books.
From my experience, the farther along the books go, they shift to being less Dune and slide into a more typical Sci-Fi/Fantasy with Dune-y aesthetics.
Noted.
Seems the rest of the series is just “extra stuff,” if you want to peruse them, but nothing truly interesting or consequential.
(Just my opinions, so, keep that in mind.)
More like explaining things that didn’t need to be explained.
spoiler
The Butlerian Jihad is wrapped up, pretty sure the explanation of what the Golden Path was supposed to lead humanity to overcome is revealed/resolved, the reasons for the conflict in the third book are wrapped up with the resolution of the Butlerian Jihad being finished. So kind of consequential if you wanted the story to “end” but then the series stops being a metaphor about things (like the first part of the books could be argued for) and just a regular sci-fi story.
Yeah, that last part seems kinda bad, ngl