Comments on: Dune - House Atreides http://zho.berka.com/2008/08/07/dune-house-atreides/ Upgrading to TL-15 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:16:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: BeRKA http://zho.berka.com/2008/08/07/dune-house-atreides/#comment-2288 BeRKA Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:19:50 +0000 http://zho.berka.com/2008/08/07/dune-house-atreides/#comment-2288 Thanks for Your advice. I'll try to find the Dune Encyclopedia first, and then I'll read House Harkonnen, to see what I think. Thanks for Your advice. I’ll try to find the Dune Encyclopedia first, and then I’ll read House Harkonnen, to see what I think.

]]> By: David Billinghurst http://zho.berka.com/2008/08/07/dune-house-atreides/#comment-2287 David Billinghurst Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:19:08 +0000 http://zho.berka.com/2008/08/07/dune-house-atreides/#comment-2287 Hey BeRKA, Love your site, and have nicked some of your nebulae for use as backgrounds on my site (with acknowledgements). I borrowed Herbert's House Major and House Minor ideas for MTU which neatly enabled me to avoid people rolling up Subsector Dukes. PC nobles are from Houses Minor. MTU is heavily feudalised as my sector was settled by a Merchant Adventurer private equity company lead by a scion of the House of Deneb. The end result is more like the medieval Holy Roman Empire than the OTU. The only prequel to Dune I've read is House Atreides and, well, The Dune Encyclopedia was really cool and had Herbert's blessing. Brian Herbert and Mr Anderson basically binned that and have gone off on another tangent. The scene where Baron Harkonnen (to be) gloats and metaphorically twirls his moustache over some plot basically blew it for me - though I've never been a fan of Anderson at the best of times. I dipped into one of the other books in the sequence and it was worse, so, I'm afraid I'll have to disagree with you, there. If you get a chance, hunt up the Dune Encyclopedia - it's well worth it. Regards David Hey BeRKA,

Love your site, and have nicked some of your nebulae for use as backgrounds on my site (with acknowledgements).

I borrowed Herbert’s House Major and House Minor ideas for MTU which neatly enabled me to avoid people rolling up Subsector Dukes. PC nobles are from Houses Minor. MTU is heavily feudalised as my sector was settled by a Merchant Adventurer private equity company lead by a scion of the House of Deneb. The end result is more like the medieval Holy Roman Empire than the OTU.

The only prequel to Dune I’ve read is House Atreides and, well, The Dune Encyclopedia was really cool and had Herbert’s blessing. Brian Herbert and Mr Anderson basically binned that and have gone off on another tangent. The scene where Baron Harkonnen (to be) gloats and metaphorically twirls his moustache over some plot basically blew it for me - though I’ve never been a fan of Anderson at the best of times. I dipped into one of the other books in the sequence and it was worse, so, I’m afraid I’ll have to disagree with you, there.

If you get a chance, hunt up the Dune Encyclopedia - it’s well worth it.

Regards

David

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