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I'm surprised they don't mention the Dune prequel titled "The Butlerian Jihad," written by Frank Herbert's son according to the former's notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad

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I'm not. Kevin J Anderson is basically the sci-fi equivalent of a grave robber, in my view.

Penny Arcade went a little further: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/10/15

(with justification, imo - the crudity and stupidity of the "Extended" Dune universe books warrants this level of snark)

Butlerian Jihad didn’t seem that awful at the time (I was 12), but oh boy was “Paul of Dune” ever an unworthy installment.

A lot of people (myself included) try to forget the Brian Herbert books ever existed.

The prelude books are OK and the sequels at least gave us some closure.

The butlerian jihad trilogy was awful though, it was there to give some necessary background information for the end of the series but when you've got characters with ancestral memories and characters that can see through time that probably could have been done in a much better way.

Your post was downvoted based on peoples' silly biases against the idea of anybody but the original author contributing to a sci-fi universe.

> Implying implications

A more likely reason is that most of them are really badly written. The books feel as though the writers wanted to make a quick cash grab using existing IP, but completely misunderstood what the exact appeal of the original works was.

the writers wanted to make a quick cash grab using existing IP, but completely misunderstood what the exact appeal of the original works was

See also the reboots of Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who...

They (B&K) always claimed that their end of the series was based on the notes by Frank Herbert that they found at some point. They however, have never disclosed those notes, to at least give us an opportunity to verify those claims. I have a hard time accepting their revelation about Marty and Daniel. I also believe that their interpretation of the Butlerian Jihad deviates substantial from the idea of Frank Herbert. And that it is just the other way around, that they had to deviate from the notes by Frank Herbert (which it seems they only found after having written the prequels) to make them fit with those prequels.

That's because the Herbert son books are absolutely terrible.

Oh good so it's not just me. I couldn't get through them.

Perhaps because it was indescribably awful.

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