Inherit the Dead

Just as "Dune" and "Dune Messiah" were two books which comprised one story, "Heretics of Dune" and "Chapterhouse Dune" make up a two book story.It is 1500 years after the Tyrant, Leto II was killed. Arrakis, now called Rakis, which Leto had transformed into a lush paradise (and thus killed the worms that supplied Spice) is turning back to a desert, complete with sandworms. Following Leto's death, humankind went to the four... Read Full Review

This is a thrilling novel, pitting the Bene Gesserit against a new enemy, the Honored Matres. Obviously there must be some relationship between an order of women devoted to politics and breeding stock (Bene Gesserit=Well Bred) and a group of fearsome fighting women who unlike the Bene Gesserit, seem not to be addicted to the Spice. The Spice is that drug that creates the ability to see past and future and all the lives encapsulated... Read Full Review

I bought this book along with Chapterhouse: Dune (which I have just started) mainly in order to finish the series. Dune itself had disappointed me initially - it is hard for a book to live up to a blurb like "Dune is the finest, most widely acclaimed science fiction novel of this century. Huge in scope, towering in concept, it is a work which will live in the reader's imagination for the rest of his life"! However, I enjoyed... Read Full Review

The first Dune was great... then, it seemed, that the further the series went on, the action was replaced by philosophical rantings. Well, Heretics of Dune returns to the style of the original Dune... plenty of action, not too much philosophy. All of the characters from the first four books (except the constantly recurring Duncan Idaho) are dead, but Herbert brings in a host of cool new characters, such as bashar Miles... Read Full Review

HERBERT thought deeply and had the talent to incorporate it into a remarkable series.This book is very good in its own right, with more in depth characterisations. It "humanises" the Bene Gesserit sisters, allowing readers to care abou their fate.Great read.