Hunters Of Dune

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Revelation Space , by Alastair Reynolds - Quirky sci-fi novel with a xenoarchaeology angle Hunters of Dune , by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson - I'm not recommending this one on the basis of the writing. I'd recommend it only to those who read all of Frank Herbert's original Dune series and have been hanging in suspense ever since because the cliffhanger ending of Chapterhouse Dune was never resolved due to Frank's untimely death. They based the book on Frank's outline, but it clearly would have been a better book if it had been written by Frank. Nonetheless, it is satisfying to resolve the unanswered questions: Who the heck are these Honored Matres and what were they running away from? Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings , by Jorges Luis Borges - This is kind of a quirky collection of short stories that are all mindbenders o…

…d in various important ways". Good sci-fi is speculative fiction, but bad sci-fi is just "a story told in a sci-fi setting". This is a good way of distinguishing between Dune by Frank Herbert (which speculates about many things, including the kind of universe that exists after a computer AI suppresses the human race and is then overthrown) and Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, which is a crap book that speculates about very little in a sci-fi setting. If you think about it, starting a company that makes a new product is basically speculating about a world that is unlike our current world because of your product! Also, you should be speculating about how other technologies and products will affect our world, so you can adapt your company before it becomes extinct...