The Road to Dune

✍ Scribed by Frank Herbert; Brian Herbert; Kevin J Anderson

• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
• Year: 2011;2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 293 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1429924918

✦ Synopsis

Spice planet, part I -- Spice planet, part II -- "They stopped the moving sands" -- The letters of Dune -- Unpublished scenes and chapters from Dune and Dune messiah -- Scenes from Frank Herbert's draft film script of Dune -- "Dune : a whisper of Caladan seas" -- "Dune : hunting Harkonnens" -- "Dune : whipping mek" -- "Dune : the faces of a martyr.";Includes never-before-published chapters from Dune and Dune Messiah, original stories, and a new short novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson 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 Herein, the world's millions of Dune fans can now read?-at long last?-the unpublished chapters and scenes from Dune and Dune Messiah .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.