{"id":2634,"date":"2007-07-25T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2007-07-25T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T23:25:00","slug":"2634","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2634","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I learn via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6461565.html\"><i>Publishers Weekly<\/i><\/a> that there&#8217;s yet another <i>Dune<\/i> book coming out in August. <i>PW<\/i> doesn&#8217;t recommend the book, writing &#8220;[t]he lengthy climax relies on at least four consecutive deus ex machina bailouts, eventually devolving into sheer fairy tale optimism.&#8221; But my question is, when does it stop? When <i>will<\/i> Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson think they&#8217;ve exhausted Frank Herbert&#8217;s original creation? Via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dune_universe#Proposed_future_works\">Wikipedia<\/a>, I learn they&#8217;ve already proposed another trilogy to follow this new book, after which they&#8217;ll have written twice as many <i>Dune<\/i> novels as Frank Herbert ever did. I&#8217;ll admit, I haven&#8217;t read any of those books &#8212; I&#8217;ve only read the first novel, <i>Dune<\/i> &#8212; and my impression of their being terrible (taken largely from <a href=\"http:\/\/spyderella.livejournal.com\/\">Sharon<\/a>, who has read them, or some of them) could be wrong. But seriously, will it stop? Or will <i>Brian<\/i> Herbert&#8217;s kids take over when <i>he<\/i> dies?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learn via Publishers Weekly that there&#8217;s yet another Dune book coming out in August. PW doesn&#8217;t recommend the book, writing &#8220;[t]he lengthy climax relies on at least four consecutive deus ex machina bailouts, eventually devolving into sheer fairy tale optimism.&#8221; But my question is, when does it stop? When will Brian Herbert and Kevin &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2634\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}