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- In What Order Should You Read the Series? • June 12, 2008
In what order should you read an SF/F series, and why? It's an especially pertinent question to genre fiction, because serial storytelling is so much a part of what we do. It matters deeply whether the Empire struck back before or after the clones attacked. - Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson’s “Dune” Prequels • January 1, 2004
In their "Dune" prequels, Herbert fils and hired gun Kevin Anderson settle for graphic sensationalism in lieu of subtlety or insight. Couldn't they have peeled back the covers on Herbert pere's grand mythic and ecologic themes, just a little bit? Instead we get gore, buckets of it.