redbugpest wrote:I doubt that. I do not think that any author would be "good enough"
I'll actually respond to this one:
You're 100-percent, flat-out dead wrong.
This is a standard preektard argument — and like all of those, it's based on assumptions, misinformation, half-truths, and wishful thinking. I think it might even be on the numbered list.
Without ever lifting my fingers from the keyboard, I can name five authors who I would have loved to see take a shot at Dune: Robert Silverberg, John Scalzi, Dan Simmons, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Neil Gaiman. Boom! There you go. It goes without saying, of course, that all five are infinitely more talented than that Star Wars EU hack who eventually did get hired, and that all five would actually put some time and attention into
crafting stories rather than going out and talking to themselves for four weeks and calling it a "Dune" book.
If you want more,
we've even discussed this very subject at this site. I even started the thread. I'm sure you'll find a conspiracy in that.
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"Anything I write will be remembered and listed in bibliographies on Dune for several hundred years ..." — some delusional halfwit troll.