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I agree completely with Frank Herbert (whose ground-breaking book Dune was rejected by publishers 20 times, by the way.) Story is everything. Though Herbert is giving this advice to beginners, it is something published writers need to keep in mind as well, especially as they launch into experimental forms. Stories need to have a beginning, a middle and an end - although not necessarily in chronological order. And, like Ray Bradbury, Herbert believed that metaphor lay at the heart of a novel…

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” — Frank Herbert, “Dune”

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Children of Dune, written by Frank Herbert, is the third novel in the original Dune series. The novel takes place nine years after the events portrayed in Dune Messiah. Set within an Arrakis dealing with the loss of Muad'Dib and a changing green environment, Children of Dune follows the twins Ghanima Atreides and Leto Atreides II and their rise to power. It also follows the conflict between the Lady Jessica and Alia Atreides, who is now possessed by the memory-consciousness of the long dead…