The Road to Dune
Written by Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert and Frank Herbert
Narrated by Scott Brick
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About this audiobook
Frank Herbert's Dune is widely known as the science fiction equivalent of The Lord of the Rings, and 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Herein, the world's millions of Dune fans can now read---at long last---the unpublished chapters and scenes from Dune and Dune Messiah. The Road to Dune also includes the original correspondence between Frank Herbert and famed editor John W. Campbell, Jr.; excerpts from Herbert's correspondence during his years-long struggle to get his innovative work published; and the article "They Stopped the Moving Sands," Herbert's original inspiration for Dune.
The Road to Dune features newly discovered papers and manuscripts of Frank Herbert, and also "Spice Planet," an original sixty-thousand-word short 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.
Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Anderson has published more than eighty novels, including twenty-nine national bestsellers. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Reader's Choice Award. His critically acclaimed original novels include Captain Nemo, Hopscotch, and Hidden Empire. He has also collaborated on numerous series novels, including Star Wars, The X-Files, and Dune. In his spare time, he also writes comic books. He lives in Wisconsin.
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Reviews for The Road to Dune
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is an interesting behind the scenes look at how Frank Herbert developed, changed, and polished his now classic book “Dune”. The book is divided into three sections, an original three-part story called “Spice Planet”, the Road to Dune, and Short Stories. This book should be in the collection of all hardcore Dune fans. Aspiring writers will appreciate the trials and tribulation Herbert faced with publishers and editors.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5There are around 3 major sections in the book. The first section is "Spice Planet", an alternate Dune story Frank Herbert outlined before writing Dune. The second part is a series of letter, and the third part contains scenes dropped from Dune and Dune Messiah.This book is a great read for people who likes Dune and want to know more about Frank Herbert's journey and thoughts while writing it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A MUST-READ for fans of the series! Especially if you really enjoyed Dune Messiah. It's well worth it for the background info and the alternate ending.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Are you a fan of Frank Herbert's Dune series? A really big fan? If so, you might find this book to be of some interest. Compiled by his son Brian and his erstwhile coauthor Kevin J. Anderson, Road to Dune provides a lot of Franks notes, as well as a reconstruction of the prototype novel "Dune World." Dune was serialized in a sci-fi magazine, and in the process, some chapters were cut and never restored tot he full novel. These are included -- I read Dune three times now, so I could place these chapters in the appropriate place. It might not make sense to other readers -- perhaps what is needed is a "author's cut" of the original Dune. Of course, some of these wayward chapters extended to the sequels, and a few late chapters relate to the prequel novels written by Brian and Kevin. "Dune World" was a clearly inferior story compared with the with the final Dune. The only familiar character is Gurney Hallek (although the smuggler, Tuek is a general in this version, rather than a smuggler). Herbert had an interest in the subject of desert ecology, and a non-fiction article he had written is also repeated here. It tells us where the inspiration for Dune came from, but the prototype book lacks the complexity of the finished product.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book's a collected 'leftovers' of the Dune universe, but ihis doesn't mean it's cheap... It contains the original 'Spice planet' short novel, some letters of FH, some unpublished parts of Dune and few shorts stories of BH and KJA. It worth to read if you are familiar with this world and like it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A lot of jumbled together information, but useful to those wanting to learn more from the Dune franchise and of Frank Herbert.