The Winds of Dune

By Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Tor, $27.99, 448 pages

Brian Herbert is filling in the mythos that his father first started many years ago with this latest work. Brian picks up after the events in Dune Messiah and goes from there filling in the story and the events that happened between Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. We follow familiar names and faces as they struggle with the legacy of Paul and what he meant to the known universe. As Alia faces power struggles and to control her Regency. And the twins, what the future holds for them, as everyone has a role to play in this game of high politics.

A good portion of the book is going back to the past and covering the friendship of Bronso of Ix and Paul, and what Paul wanted Bronso to do after he was dead. To destroy the myth of Muad’dib, saying that Maud’dib was a man, not a God. The writing is similar to the other Dune books that Brian and Kevin have written. Short chapters, and a lot of action compacted in a short time frame. What is nice, compared to some of the others, is that there are not large jumps of time, besides going years back into the past most of the events take place a couple months after the disappearance of Paul. For fans of Dune this is a worthy sequel in the ever expanding Dune universe.

Reviewed by Kevin Winter