House Atreides - Entry #4

Done!  Next up House Harkonnen!!!  But before wrapping up this book, just wanted to share a paragraph from the Afterword by Brian Herbert.

A scant two weeks after our [Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson] meeting, I received a telephone call from an estate lawyer who had handled matters involving my mother and father.  He informed me that two safety-deposit boxes belonging to Frank Herbert had turned up in a suburb of Seattle, boxes that none of us knew existed.  I made an appointment to meet with the bank authorities, and in an increasing air of excitement, the safety-deposit boxes were opened.  Inside were papers and old-stype floppy computer disks that included comprehensive notes from an unpublished DUNE 7 - the long-awaited sequel to CHAPTERHOUSE: DUNE!  Now Kevin and I knew for certain where Frank herbert had been headed, and we could weave the events of our prequel into a fugure grand finale for the series. (House Atreides, p. 678)

I so much appreciate that Brian Herbert wanted to write the full epoch story that his father had envisioned and outlined.  The connections made throughout the story that spans 15,000 standard years, from Butlerian times to the incredible ending envisioned by Frank Herbert in his DUNE 7 notes and brought to life by his son in Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune, just blows my mind!