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I don't remember where I read it, but I remember reading that he wrote parts of Children and Messiah before or in parallel with writing the first book.
by GeoAtreides 5y ago
I don't remember where I read it, but I remember reading that he wrote parts of Children and Messiah before or in parallel with writing the first book.
- gumby 5y agoHe also said at some later point that he had always envisioned it as a trilogy. I assume he simply enjoyed the money and attention (and probably had some leftover ideas to expand upon) and frankly, why shouldn’t he? Dune is surprisingly tightly plotted so he probably left a lot of items “on the cutting room floor”. Although I personally became bored with the sequels, they didn’t have the “just turning the crank to get some bucks” feeling that a lot of sequels do. They simply weren’t for me, which is fine.