Chapterhouse Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 6)

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English language

Published Oct. 19, 1999 by Tandem Library.

ISBN:
978-0-8085-9962-3
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Chapterhouse: Dune is a 1985 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the last in his Dune series of six novels. It rose to No. 2 on The New York Times Best Seller list. A direct follow-up to Heretics of Dune, the novel chronicles the continued struggles of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood against the violent Honored Matres, who are succeeding in their bid to seize control of the universe and destroy the factions and planets that oppose them. Chapterhouse: Dune ends with a cliffhanger, and Herbert's subsequent death in 1986 left some overarching plotlines of the series unresolved. Two decades later, Herbert's son Brian Herbert, along with Kevin J. Anderson, published two sequels – Hunters of Dune (2006) and Sandworms of Dune (2007) – based in part on notes left behind by Frank Herbert for what he referred to as Dune 7, his own planned seventh novel in the Dune series.

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5 stars

Like God Emperor Of Dune, this book is full of the main character philosphising, which is ironic given that she's a Bene Gesserit and they're supposed to be against that kind of thing. The book would probably have been better at a third of the length. I also wondered why the Bene Gesserit with all their resources, including Other Memory going back millennia, were so dependent on two men, Bashar Miles Teg and Duncan Idaho, to defeat the Honored Matres (and they fail at that anyway due to the Honored Matres use of superior technology).
I was surprised that in Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse Dune, technology seems to have degraded to the point that most people on Gammu would find the 1980s hi-tech.

If only there was a proper sequel, dealing with such details of the perfect Face Dancers who don't need Masters, or described what is going on …

Subjects

  • Science Fiction - General
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)