Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in a safe-deposit box for a decade, these two volumes will finally answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades.

At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune - Frank Herbert's final novel - a ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The nearly invincible Honored Matres have swarmed into the known universe, driven from their home by a terrifying, mysterious Enemy.

As designed by the creative genius of Frank Herbert, the primary story of Hunters and Sandworms is the exotic odyssey of Duncan's no-ship as it is forced to elude the diabolical traps set by the ferocious, unknown Enemy. To strengthen their forces, the fugitives have used genetic technology from Scytale, the last Tleilaxu Master, to revive key figures from Dune's past - including Paul Muad'Dib and his beloved Chani, Lady Jessica, Stilgar, Thufir Hawat, and even Dr. Wellington Yueh. Each of these characters will use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them.

Failure is unthinkable - not only is their survival at stake, but they hold the fate of the entire human race in their hands.

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Jonathan

Anything that must be endured, can be endured

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2019

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This reads like fan fiction from a fourteen year old with a bad memory. Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson chose to continue their dumbed down wiring style they used in their prequel novels to completely destroy the work of Frank Herbert. I would rather have spent the same money on Frank's 30 page outline than get through this loaf of meandering tripe filled with forgettable characters in ridiculous situations with more references to the prequel books than actual content from the actual Dune universe. But since this is the only format in which you can see the shadow of Frank's outline, you must endure it to learn the ending.

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jennifer brown

Lame

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2020

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This book read nothing like a Frank Herbert “Dune” novel. Where are the supposed notes found by his son written by Frank and how on earth are they integrated into this book? I don’t see it. Terribly disappointed and quite frankly disgusted. It’s pretty obvious these books were written only to be cash cows. Also just a terrible read in general.

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MVD

Awful

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2016

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This continuation of Herbert's Dune series is unspeakably bad. I was actually angry that I felt committed enough to the Dune universe that I felt I had to see this book through to the end. Shame on all those involved for desecrating the legacy of the elder Herbert's work. "Super human stud against amber-haired temptress." This is an actual line in the book used to describe love making between Duncan and Murbella. I was almost embarassed reading it. I have to believe if Frank Herbert were alive today he would be outraged. This is all you need to know to make a decision about this book. Sometimes in life you have to ask yourself if you are up to a task before undertaking it, just because something can be done does not mean it should be.

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BCV

Truly terrible

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2020

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Like the prequel books, it is obvious that neither the younger Herbert or Anderson have any of the deep insights into humanity that the elder Herbert demonstrated throughout the original series. However, here in the context of final “real” Dune books, that shortcoming is so pronounced, so unavoidable in every chapter that it is really unbearable. Aside for this, they fall into almost every Sci-fi cliche including a parade of returning characters that feels like an unnecessary curtain call.
Just don’t. Finish Chapterhouse, and let your own imagination run wild. I guarantee the results will be better than this and the follow up.

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Michel Labeque

Meh!

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2019

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A few things stood out. First, I hate the use of epigraphs if they’re nothing more than a shallow recap of what I'm about to read. That's what happened consistently in this book, and ut must be said, neither of these two can match the sheer breadth and depth of Frank Herbert. Just let it go, guys!
The plotlines are mighty thin and, sadly, not credible. The Oracle of Time?? Gholas of Paul, Jessica, et al?? The revelation of the reason for the Honored Matres’ flight from the Enemy is disappointing, not to mention the identity of the old man and woman. I think in the latter case the authors failed to provide any foreshadowing for this, so it's unfair as well as disappointing.

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Paul Ranges

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2020

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I had hopes Hunters of Dune would be a tale l couldn't stop reading. Sadly, the genius of Frank Herbert did not pass to his son with the outlines and notes for this book. I was curious to know the fate of those aboard the fleeing no-ship, and l plowed through simplistic characters and dialogue to learn the name of the Enemy.
The saga will have to go forward without me. Without the rich character development l found when I read Dune decades ago, anything after Chapter House Dune is just another bit of mundane sci fi.

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Danny E. Mccormick

Picks up the pace

Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2021

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After reading Frank Herbert's first six books in the series, I was feeling as if the storyline was being dragged out. The story was still interesting, but the action had slowed down tremendously from the first two books. After Herbert's death, his son and another author took the reins to finish the saga. I'm glad they did. Hunters of Dune really picks up the pace. The series is back to being enjoyable to read. The chapters are short, so I can read them in spurts without marking pages and trying to figure out where I left off - I just stop reading when a new chapter begins. It took me one month to read the first four books of the series, one month to read Herbert's last two books, and now a week later and I'm more than halfway through the seventh book.

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Will

Review of the physical book's quality, not the story

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2021

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I know this is a mass market paperback and they're always of much lower quality, but I think this may be one of the lowest quality mass markets I've ever had. The printing is blurry in many places. Probably 1/3 of the pages so far have a fat strip down the middle from top to bottom where it looks like the printer was running out of ink/toner because the printing is very light. I'm on page 80 and I think I've now encountered 10 pairs of pages that are stuck together on the bottom. Each time I've had to slide my finger in between the pages pages across the bottom to gently rip the pages apart like I'm opening an envelope. Also a minor issue, and one that seems common with mass markets, but there isn't much margin on the pages. The printing goes almost to the spine so you really have to hold the book wide open to see everything.

All things considered I haven't had any problems reading it so far. There's no illegible words and none of the pages have torn when I have to separate them.

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George P. Salter

Beyond appalling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2020

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Brian Herbert and his ghostwriter have destroyed Dune. On its own merits, this is a terrible book. As a sequel to Dune, it deserves a negative 5 star.
If I was feeling charitable, I'd say that Brian Herbert has completely misunderstood his fathers work- I have to assume that he's actually read it. Unfortunately , as there are several prequels and side stories of equal incompetence , I'm forced to cynicism and the conclusion that a royalty cheque is the motivation.

Terrible prose, inept ideas, ludicrous plot holes. Keep your money. Hell, burn your money. It's better than encouraging more of this garbage .

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Judge it on its own merits - it is not holy writ!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2013

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I underwent a bit of soul searching before I read this book, the first of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's two sequels to the original Dune Chronicles.

"Chapterhouse: Dune", the last of Frank Herbert's own 6 Dune novels does answer a lot of questions, but it was fairly clearly not meant to be the end to the series. Frank Herbert leaves several loose ends. At the end of the novel the latest Duncan Idaho, Miles Teg who is one of the finest new characters in the later novels, Sheeana and a host of BG dissidents take a giant no-ship from Chapterhouse and steal away into uncharted space. Amongst the ship's passengers is the last surviving Tleilaxu master, a ghola of Scytale from "Messiah". Unbeknownst to the crew, he has within his skin a nullentropy capsule containing cells from Muad D'ib, Kessica, Chani, Stilgar, Hawat, Leto II and other characters from the original novel. Throughout the book there have been constant hints about a great enemy that drove the Honoured Matres into the old empire, who are doubtless closing in upon it themselves. The ending of the book also introduces us to Daniel and Marty, two enigmatic figures, in the shape of an old man and woman who bear resemblance to Face Dancers from the Scattering. They possess knowledge and power beyond that of other characters, and they seek to capture the no ship bearing Duncan Idaho and the others.

Frank Herbert died before writing what he had started to refer to as Dune 7. This is where his son Brian Herbert, and writing partner Kevin J. Anderson come in. Over a period of years beginning in 1999 they wrote a trilogy of novels based on events leading up to the events covered in the first book, collectively titled Prelude to Dune, and another entitled Legends of Dune in 2002. I can't comment on these prequels, never having read them. Then in the early Noughties they announced that while searching Frank Herbert's papers they had found his notes for Dune 7, some thirty pages of them, and that they were going to write the novel themselves. This actually became two novels, and this is where we finally get to "Hunters of Dune", the first of them.

Over the last couple of months I've read all 6 original books again consecutively. Before even ordering myself a copy of "Hunters" I read a large number of reviews of this, and the final novel "Sandworms of Dune" , and the vast majority have been extremely negative. Now, the best, in fact only valid reason for writing a bad review of a novel is that you genuinely didn't like the book and didn't think it was well written. However this is a sequel to one of the best loved series of novels ever written in the genre, and when people have the extreme devotion to a set of books that many of the fans have to the chronicles of Dune, then they don't always think rationally or consider the new work on its own merits in a fair and reasonable fashion. With this in mind I promised myself that if I was going to read "Hunters" I was going to judge it fairly, and try to judge it by a few simple criteria, namely : -
Did it pick up the loose ends from "Chapterhouse" in a way that seems at all consistent with what has gone before?
Did it develop in ways that seem plausible with the overall direction of the previous novels?
Was the prose style readable or not?
Did it make me want to read "Sandworms" or not?

Now that I've read "Hunters" I have to say that in all honesty I think that a lot of the criticism of the book in the reviews that I've read is unfair, and some of it, grossly unfair. I've read a lot of criticism of the creation of the gholas of Paul, Chani , Thufir, Leto et al upon the no-ship Ithaca. Personally I thought that this was an interesting plot device, and it's difficult to argue that if Frank Herbert had not at least been thinking about the possibility of this, then he wouldn't have introduced Scytale's nullentropy capsule full of cells in "Chapterhouse". Likewise, if Scytale had such a capsule, then it's not unreasonable to suggest that other capsules might have been made by the Tleilaxu, and one of these falling into Honored Matre hands on Tleilax is perfectly plausible.

The majority of reviewers I've read were disappointed at the revelation of the true identities of Daniel and Marty, the great Enemy. They turn out to be Omnium and Erasmus, thinking machines exiled to the edges of the Universe following the Butlerian Jihad. Now, in a way I can understand the disappointment. If there's one thing that the Dune novels aren't really about, it's technology, which when you come to think about it is quite unusual for Science Fiction. But reading Heretics and especially Chapterhouse I can't say that this wasn't what Frank Herbert was hinting. It does make some kind of sense that the greatest threat to the organic universe comes from the inorganic. The Butlerian Jihad has been there in the background since the first great novel that started it all. So while it wasn't what I expected - I don't know what I expected - I can't say that it wasn't right. Yes, the machines Omnium and Erasmus were created in the authors' own prequel novels, but so what? Maybe it wasn't what Frank Herbert intended, but then unfortunately he isn't around any more to tell us exactly what he did intend. Which incidentally leads us to an interesting digression.

Conspiracy theorists point to the lapse in time between Frank Herbert's death, and the discovery of his Dune 7 notes. Shades of Leto II's hoard at Dar es Balat! All I can say about the theory is that if this was a fabrication designed to gain acceptance for "Hunters" and "Sandworms" , then it didn't work very well. But Kevin Anderson has gone on record to say that the original notes were shown to their publishers, and I'll be honest, you don't bring more people in on the secret if you're trying to preserve a lie, especially if it's a lie you didn't need to make in the first place. Besides, the question mark over the existence of the Dune 7 notes is, at best, an irrelevance. If the novel is plausible and enjoyable then it makes little difference whether it was based on notes by Frank Herbert or not. Likewise, if it's a turkey, then it's still a turkey whatever its origin.

So much for the loose ends from Chapterhouse. I can't agree with criticisms of Herbert Jr.'s and Anderson's prose as `turgid' either. Granted that their style is not as rich nor quite as compelling as Frank Herbert's, but neither does it demand quite as much of the reader. It's certainly more than adequate for the task in hand, and if it is, therefore, a slightly easier read than some of the original 5 sequels then that's not necessarily a drawback. If there are times when the novel seems to be taking a long time to get where it's going, it's not the fault of the prose style.

In saying that I think some of the criticism made of the novel is unfair, I'm not saying that there are not criticisms to be made. The structure of the book becomes rather predictable. It is organized in sections that take place three years after the escape from Chapterhouse, then the next five years, and so on. Within each section there's a bit on the ship, Ithaca, probably with Duncan and Miles combining just in time to get the ship to jump in space and escape Daniel's and Marty's tachyon net. Then there's a bit on Chapterhouse with Murbella organizing another raid against another renegade Honored Matres stronghold, or carrying it out. Then there's a bit with the renegade Honored Matres and their axolotl tank projects on Tleilax. Then another bit on the Ithaca, then back to Murbella, and so on and so forth. It leads one to come to the conclusion that a fair amount of the novel is padding. You could probably cut the book to two thirds of its current length, and it wouldn't be any the worse for it. But, and this is a crucial point to consider, you can say that about some of Frank Herbert's own sequels - "God Emperor" comes irresistibly to mind.

While I'm making my own criticisms I did find that the chapter heading quotations didn't ring true for me in this novel. Maybe Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson just don't have the level of philosophical understanding to deliver on this level. I can't say that this greatly reduced my enjoyment of the book, though.

Did "Hunters of Dune" make me want to read "Sandworms of Dune", then? Yes, it did, and it's already on order. I don't say that "Hunters" is necessarily quite as good as the two novels that it immediately follows, "Heretics" and Chapterhouse". It lacks a little in characterization compared with those, although I have to say that I found the captured Lost Tleilaxu Master Uxtal interesting, and the Harkonnen ghola was drawn with some verve and wit. However, and this is important, I don't see that it is hugely inferior in quality when compared with Herbert's last two Dune sequels. All of which begs the question - why has it earned such opprobrium from legions of the series' fans?

Well, this is just my opinion, and by all means feel free to disagree. When a novel, or a series of novels or films acquires this kind of cult following, then the fans come to feel a strange kind of ownership of the works in question. They cannot be rational and dispassionate about it. They feel that the legacy of the work is to be jealously guarded. The words `cult following' are appropriate, since they conjure up images of religion, and the way that I read a lot of the criticism of "Hunters" is that many of the reviewers seem to regard it as `sacrilege'. Not that many of them use that word to describe it. The original author is allowed - sometimes grudgingly - to take the work in directions that the acolyte reader would not have imagined, expected or wanted, but nobody else is. Thus we see Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson being treated as true heretics of Dune, since few acknowledge that a lot of the plot elements they dislike so much in "Hunters" are at least alluded to in "Heretics" and/or "Chapterhouse", and in fact in a number of cases it goes beyond mere allusion. I respectfully suggest that many of those who so actively disliked "Hunters" maybe didn't really like the two predecessors either, but to admit that, even to themselves, really would be sacrilege.

So we come to the crux. If you didn't like "Heretics of Dune" and "Chapterhouse: Dune" then do not read "Hunters of Dune" because you won't like it either. If you did enjoy these last two original sequels, then by all means read "Hunters of Dune", but do it as a reader, not a disciple. Try to forget the received wisdom that says,
a) each sequel in a series is inferior to the book that preceded it
b) any sequel by someone other than the original writer is vastly inferior to the work of the original writer,
and give it a fair trial. You never know, you might find that you rather enjoy it.

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Steve Morris

I wish I had read it sooner

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 6, 2019

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I waited many, many years before reading any of the Dune follow-up books written by Brian Herbert, because I had read some heavily critical reviews of them. I wish now that I had ignored all those negative reviews. This was a fabulous book, just as engrossing as Frank Herbert's books, and in many ways better structured and more exciting than some of the later, more ponderous books in the Dune sequence. Now, finally I know the identities of the mysterious old man and woman who appeared at the end of Chapterhouse: Dune, and what they have planned for the universe. I can't wait to read more, and am eager to get stuck into the Legends of Dune trilogy before returning to the main sequence and reading Sandworms of Dune. If you, like I once did, have any lingering fears about whether Brian's books are as good as his father's I would simply remind you that, "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer."

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Pal Joey

Well, for good or ill, they had a go...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2017

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Are Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson half as good at writing 'Dune' books as Papa Frank? No.

Are there far too many Deus ex Machina moments in the plot, for the rest of the writing to survive unscathed? Yes.

Finishing off the storyline, no matter how much original draft material they had discovered, was always going to be a thankless task. They tried. They really tried. I think they truly loved and respected the original books. But this is merely okay, nothing more.

But too much ammo was fired at the target. Some of it was due to the regurgitated characters from the original book, who mainly performed one significant plot function before becoming background noise again. Of the rest, there were protagonists and situations inspired, possibly, by Gregory Benford's 'Galactic Centre' books and/or the Matrix films (the disappointing sequels, mainly).

I'm actually glad someone had a crack at the job of finishing this long long saga, but the very existence of this particular Vol.7 & Vol.8 does make it unlikely that another (and quite possibly better) attempt will ever be written.

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Vintage Dune it ain't

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2020

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This is a totally different beast from Frank Herbert's writings. It's got the sandworms, the Guild, the Tleilax, the Bene Gesserit, the Honored Matres and all the other trappings of a Dune installment, but is handled in a totally different way, most notably in terms of narrative exposition; Frank Herbert's subtle approach to this - in particular what he chose to explain and how it was explained, if at all - is a major feature and hallmark of his Dune writing, and is all but absent from Hunters and its successor, Sandworms. It's still a far-future sci-fi yarn, a worthy effort, the story is actually okay (even if to my mind it loses much in the telling), and I'm sure many will love it... but as a fan of Frank Herbert, the writing just doesn't do it for me.

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