It could have been worse.

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	• Sandworms of Dune Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson Tor Books, 2007 - 496 pages average customer review:based on 119 reviews view larger image
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It could have been worse.

SANDWORMS OF DUNE is the latest entry in Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's series of DUNE fill-in-the-cracks novels. Having completed their 1950s-vintage back story for the "jihad" against artificial intelligence that was part of the unexplained matrix of the original DUNE, Herbert and Anderson project that back story into the future (relative to Herbert's final DUNE novel, CHAPTERHOUSE DUNE), completing what they started in HUNTERS OF DUNE.

It's not difficult to make fun of the stiff, sometimes comically awkward writing in these novels. It's not difficult to wail about the ridiculousness of so many of the plot developments. It's not difficult to go on and on about how abysmally silly and awful Omnius and Erasmus are as characters and as a thread in the DUNE narrative -- it just isn't possible that Frank Herbert had anything like these monstrosities in mind when he thought about humanity's rejection of artificial intelligence. But ...

It's not difficult to read this novel and enjoy at least some of it. I did not feel compelled to throw the book across the room. I did not find myself skipping over paragraphs because they were too tedious (as I have, e.g., in Charles Stross' Merchant Princes novels--and I like Stross a lot more than I like these guys). Some parts were even page-turning suspenseful. In bestselling SF novels, these are things to be happy about.

Would I rather have spent my time reading a new novel by McLeod or Stross or Asher or Reynolds any one of several other authors? Sure, but there aren't any, and until there are ... there's SANDWORMS OF DUNE.

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It's not that bad

when I got 20 pages into House Harkonen after sitting through the House Atreides on Tape during a really long drive, I threw it in the trash becasue it read more like fan fiction than something from Frank Herbert's Universe.

But After reading all the original Dune books, I couldn't resist Hunters of Dune. Wich I thought was alright, so I went and read the Butlerian Jihad Books, Wich were entertaining. So Now that I finished Sandworms of Dune, I can honestly say, It's not Frank Herbert But it is a fun read, and you get to see alot of your favorite charcters again. So to me that was worth it. and I think it does tie everything up nicely.

I also change shape.

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