05-21-2009, 03:37 AM
Quote:They didn't, although Ken Levine was supposedly heavily consulted. We'll see. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't.
But, I'm more worried about the Dune syndrome. Dune: Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, etc... are all excellent science fiction novels, written by the same grandmaster who wrote the original. And yet, the original book is so much better than the sequels, that the possibilities it hints at are superior if you consider them as such, and ignore the parts Frank Herbert filled in afterwards. (I will not even speak of the recent heresy.)
Hmm, that's a good albeit depressing point.