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Not a Perfume, But a Desert Planet! Those canny marketing heads over at Bantam Books have come up with a fiendish new way to entice you boys and girls in User Land over to their shallow marketing site at www.dunenovels.com They now are sticking up the book jacket art roughs up from the shortly to be released Dune books. New Dune books we hear you screech? Hasn't author Frank Herbert bought the farm? Is he not, to coin a phrase from East London's rhyming slang, brown bread? Our Frankie has indeed passed from this mortal coil, dear readers. But fear not, for son Brian Herbert has teamed up with Kevin Anderson (best known for his sharecropped Star Wars novels) to bring you some Dunish universe prequal novels. In best Phantom Menace fashion, the two authors are focusing on young Duke Atreides (three cheers) battles against the equally twenty-something evil Baron Harkonnen (boo hiss). It's been over a decade since the last Dune book rolled out of the printing press, but we predict this marketing inspired piece of prequalry hokum will do well. The last novels of Frankie were, it is sad to say, not a spot on the first Dune book. Poor old hero Paul Atreides ended up turning into a big fat old Jabba the Hut type-thing. In fact, it is rumoured a similar bizarre bodily change has been happening to the editor of a certain SF magazine whose title, while remaining nameless, is not totally unadjacent to the word Pocus. Of course, in this editor's case, the only spice this metamorphosis has been triggered by, is the BBQ dressing on one too many chicken drum sticks. Like the original, the size of the first tome in the series is reputed to be of table-propping up size. Let us hope the Kevin and son of Frankie combo can breathe a little life into this utter classic of the genre.
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OTHER NEWS - june '99
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