Prelude to Dune

Prelude to Dune is a trilogy of Dune: House Atreides, Dune: House Harkonnen, and Dune: House Corrino. The Prelude to Dune trilogy took place around 30 or 40 SY before the events on Dune. This gave us a background on the main characters of the first three Classic Dune novels. This also gave the not-so-Dune-reading community the chance to have... say... motivation to read through all six novels of the Dune Chronicles. And it did.

And what's a Dune novel without Duncan Idaho. Yep, he's here and the original, not the ghola. This is also when the no-field was invented, and used by the Harkonnens. This first no field would be seen (or read) again on Heretics of Dune; including the skeletons of its original makers. This is also when the first atempts of the Bene Tlielax to synthetically produce Spice took place. They succeeded only after 5000 SY; again, Heretics of Dune.

I found a different apeal in the writing styles of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson. Their writings tend to be more interesting; more infomation or detail -diven but not that boring. Maybe because they were working on notes left by Brian Herbert. Maybe.

If you've read the original six novels, you'll want to read the Preludes so you can go, "So that's what happened." or, "So that's where it started." or just plainly say, "Oh, I see."