burton@inuxg.UUCP (Thomas Burton) (03/12/84)
xx <- two footed stomp The March edition of Omni magazine contains a small excerpt from Frank Herbert's new Dune novel, Heretics of Dune. When I say small, I mean small! I haven't read Omni lately, but I seem to remember that when they excerpted Number of the Beast and Firestarter, the excerpts had some substance; I finished the Dune excerpt in less than 10 minutes. Anyway, the story seems to be taking place many generations after Leto II died and returned his spirit to the desert (i.e., returned the sandtrout vector of the sandworm to the desert to start making new sandworms). The excerpt is actually a flashback of an eleven-year-old priestess to when she was eight years old, and the circumstances that led to her position. It appears that, while the sandworms are back, they are not as powerful as before; the girl refers to a thirty meter worm as a big one, and if I remember correctly, that wasn't a very big worm in the time of Stilgar and Paul. Apparently, the Bene Gesserit (yes, the witches are still around!) have been waiting (of course) for someone to come along who has the power to control the sandworms, and she's the one. That's about it for the excerpt. As an aside, I just want to note that I will probably buy this one just to keep up the collection (as many of the net readers in net.comics are doing with the "Secret Wars"), but I really am not looking forward to reading it; I think Herbert had a great thing going with Dune, but he really shouldn't have made it into a series (by the way, what is the proper term for a collection of five books? Or six books?) I understand he signed a contract to continue the Dune saga to six books. Doug Burton ATT-CP Indianapolis inuxg!burton
eric@aplvax.UUCP (03/13/84)
What is the proper term for a series of five or six books? How about a glut? or maybe just "too many". -- eric ...!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!eric
feldman@ccvaxa.UUCP (03/15/84)
#R:inuxg:-27600:ccvaxa:22100018:000:117 ccvaxa!feldman Mar 13 10:57:00 1984 Re "Heretics of Dune": Is there really another one coming? If so, the title is wrong! It should be: "Over Dune"
nathan@orstcs.UUCP (03/16/84)
Six books? A Sexology, of course!
amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson) (03/20/84)
orstcs!nathan sez:
>> Six books? A Sexology, of course!
Nice try, Nathan, but it's a Hexology.
John Hobson
AT&T Bell Labs--Naperville, IL
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