Need Help/Citation re:Dune Canon as In-Universe Text
Posted: 04 Jun 2011 09:22
(maybe some spoilers below if you care)
So I got into it the other day with a Dune-lite fan.
Here's the thing - I'm not touching those interbetweenquels with a ten foot pole.
But this douche won't believe that KJA retconned Dune canon by writing everything off as being in-universe texts.
Can someone cite that passage for me? I'd really appreciate it.
I didn't want to ruin Dune 7 for him (wanted KJA to do it all on his own). I gave this guy credit that once they revealed Daniel and Marty to be Erasmus and and Omnius, that he'd have enough brains to put two and two together and realize that it's just KJA tying things back into his own novels and nothing at all to do with Frank's notes. How could it? These were characters completely of KJA and BH's making. It's so transparent!
He actually liked the idea that the world would "begin and end with a jihad"? Like there weren't more in between?
I'm not touching those new books, and really have no desire to revisit the spin-offs I've already read.
Can anybody lend a hand?
I've just never met anyone who didn't, at some point say "enough is enough" with these spin-offs. I can't see any metric by which they stack up. Except for some shared terminology and characters, they're night and day.
Any help is appreciated.
So I got into it the other day with a Dune-lite fan.
Here's the thing - I'm not touching those interbetweenquels with a ten foot pole.
But this douche won't believe that KJA retconned Dune canon by writing everything off as being in-universe texts.
Can someone cite that passage for me? I'd really appreciate it.
I didn't want to ruin Dune 7 for him (wanted KJA to do it all on his own). I gave this guy credit that once they revealed Daniel and Marty to be Erasmus and and Omnius, that he'd have enough brains to put two and two together and realize that it's just KJA tying things back into his own novels and nothing at all to do with Frank's notes. How could it? These were characters completely of KJA and BH's making. It's so transparent!
He actually liked the idea that the world would "begin and end with a jihad"? Like there weren't more in between?
I'm not touching those new books, and really have no desire to revisit the spin-offs I've already read.
Can anybody lend a hand?
I've just never met anyone who didn't, at some point say "enough is enough" with these spin-offs. I can't see any metric by which they stack up. Except for some shared terminology and characters, they're night and day.
Any help is appreciated.