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Binding: HardcoverFormat: Bargain Price Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 496 Publication Date: September 01, 2005 Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Frank Herberts Dune is widely known as the science fiction equivalent of The Lord of the Rings. The Road to Dune is a companion work comparable to The Silmarillion, shedding light on and following the remarkable development of the bestselling science fiction novel of all time.Herein, the worlds millions of Dune fans can now readat long lastunpublished chapters and scenes from Dune and Dune Messiah. The Road to Dune also includes correspondence between Frank Herbert and famed editor, John W. Campbell, Jr.; excerpts from Herberts correspondence during his years-long struggle to get his innovative work published; and the article, They Stopped the Moving Sands, Herberts original inspiration for Dune.The Road to Dune features Spice Planet, an original sixty-two thousand-word novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, based on a detailed outline left by Frank Herbert. The Road to Dune is a treasure trove of essays, articles, and fiction that every reader of Dune will want to add to their shelf. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great BookAwesome Read for any Dune fan. This duo really did a wonderful job as usual on their books. Thank you Mr. Herbert, and Mr. Anderson for writing this among the many other books you have shared with all of us Dune fans. Rating:  - Interesting but not necessaryThe Road to Dune is intended to give the reader an appreciation of the evolution of thought that resulted in the classic novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Only a small portion of the book actually addresses this, that namely being the letters back and forth between Herbert and the editor. The novel 'Spice Planet' is interesting as it is based on the original outline for Dune that Frank Herbert had created, but the story is only of middling quality. It would've been more meaningful to simply include ... Read More Rating: - only for the fanIf I weren't such a Dune fanatic, I wouldn't have read this book. Although Brian and Kevin's writing has gotten better over the years, this book is still nothing but a disappointing continuation of a stellar legacy. Rating: - book reviewInteresting book to see the process of the creation of a masterpiece of a book such as Dune. Well written Rating: - Super ReaderThe introduction and excerpts from Dune and Dune Messiah were fascinating, as was the process of the first book actually being published, but only serially to start with! Again, the younger generation's works I can take or leave. However, they do explain how they were working from a ton of material that Frank left, and how they went through it, scanned it so they could search it, etc. If you don't like any of the other 'new' sequels, this one is certainly worth ... Read More 
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