![]() My conclusion was that Frank had ‘lost it’, and me with it. It emphasised the bits of Dune I was less impressed with and downplayed all the parts I liked. It felt downbeat and depressing and really not the tale I expected to read. ![]() It was too talky, and there was a lot of mystical mumbo-jumbo that I really didn’t get. It rarely leaves the city of Arrakeen, never mind the planet of Arrakis. Where were the interplanetary events, the battles, the action that I had loved in Dune? To my much younger brain it was too slow, less epic, definitely less action-based and depressingly smaller in scale. ![]() Remembering my read from that long ago, I recall eagerly picking it up, having felt that I finally ‘got’ Dune, and wanting some more.Ĭomparing Dune Messiah with Dune was a shock. In fact, I reckon it must be at least thirty years since I last read Dune Messiah. I own more than one copy and also the issues of the magazine ( Analog) that it was first published in.Ī recent discussion of Dune in the SFFWorld forums made some interesting comments, but also got me thinking why I didn’t read the sequels so much. Personally I have read and reread it many times over thirty years or so. The story of Dune is perhaps one of the best known in science fiction these days. ![]() ” A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.” Princess Irulan, the first line of Dune. ![]()
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