Errors in the 'House Atreides' novel

[Tim Robb <timrobb@club-internet.fr>]

Attn.: Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson



Dear Brian and Kevin,

First of all, I wish to thank you for having attempted this exciting
project of writing and publishing the three volumes of the Prelude to
Dune. The Dune Universe is to me, as for many, the most complex,
interesting  and convicing of all science fiction universes I have
discovered.

I am currently in the process of reading 'House Atreides', and have
noted several discrepancies and contradictions with the original Dune
series, which I will do my best to summarize here:

1) First of all, nowhere in the original Dune series have I seen
mentioned that Mentats needed the spice to execute their task. Not even
the slightest hint of it, I'm afraid.

2) Elacca wood comes from planet Ecaz (IV Alpha Centauri B), and not
planet Elacca.

3) Jessica's mother is named as Tanidia Nerus, and nowhere have I seen
any hint that Gaius Helen Mohiam may be her mother.

4) I cannot understand how no-fields could have been developed so early,
as their need has derived from the existence of prescient Emperors,
namely Muad'Dib and Leto II.

5) You make Liet-Kynes son of Pardot by Frieth sister of Stilgar,
whereas it is stated in the original Dune novels that he is husband of
Faroula, sister of Stilgar., and father by her of Chani. Did Liet-Kynes
marry his aunt?

6) You mention that Guild Navigators undergo a physical transformation
due to overexposure to melange. However, I never thought that a normal
human being could mutate into a navigator, but rather that navigators
had mutated after centuries of exposure to melange.

I hope you will find my remarks pertinent, but I feel strongly that
because of such details, your novels may never make it to canon status.
If you are interested, I am willing to research the original quotations,
although, as Brian has developed a 'Dune Concordance' for your work,
this should be easy for you to do.


Please receive all my wishes of good work for the future.


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Tim Robb
office: Tim.Robb@compaq.com
home: TimRobb@club-internet.fr

There was a man who sat each day looking out through a
narrow vertical opening where a single board had been
removed from a tall woodden fence. Each day a wild ass of
the desert passed outside the fence and across the narrow
opening - first the nose, then the head, the forelegs, the
long brown back, the hindlegs, and lastly the tail. One
day, the man leaped to his feet with the light of discovery
in his eyes and he shouted for all who could hear him:
"It is obvious! The nose causes the tail!"

- Frank Herbert


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