Apjak wrote:Read them after Hunters and Sandworms. They don't finish themselves, or make sense in relation to the original Frank Herbert books. They are their own interquel "stories" that have little relation to anything besides themselves, and they aren't done. They're on hold until the franchise becomes profitable again.
If I must my little Batigh:
IMHO, this is closer:
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emporer of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse: DuneDetails (best/worst example: stuff about the Tleilaxu in HoD/CH:D) used to set up:
House Atreides, House Harkonnen, House Corrino.
Hints about the Schools set up:
The Butlerian Jihad, Machine Crusade, The Other One
Conscious robots you say? That's lucky because next up it's:
Hunters of DUNE™ Sandworms of DUNE™ ®
Hang on, didn't Fenring stab Paul? I wonder if there's anything about that in:
Paul™ of DUNE™ ©, Winds of DUNE™ ® ©
This so shit even KJA gets bored at this point:
Sisterhood of DUNE™ ® © 卐
This is what I really don't get about the chronology thing. Even if you're the biggest KJA fan evar it makes no fucking sense to read them in the in-universe-chronology. Every book contains spoilers about the last one... coincidence? No - they were written in that order and the authors used past events to build new stories, as well as foreshadowing stuff for the next book.