Big Advance for New Dune Novels

Posted on April 1, 2004

Kevin J. Anderson and his writing partner, Brian Herbert, have been awarded what is rumored to be the largest advance on a single science fiction contract for the next series of Dune novels.

The deal includes the two-volume grand climax to the Dune chronicles, based directly on the Dune 7 outline written by creator Frank Herbert, as well as The Road to Dune, a compendium of never-before-published chapters from Dune and Dune Messiah, plus original stories and a short novel written by Anderson and Brian Herbert.

Frank Herbert's classic Dune is the bestselling science fiction novel of all time. When Herbert died in 1986, he left his Dune Chronicles uncompleted -- in fact, the last published novel, Chapterhouse Dune, ends on a cliffhanger. Before he died, he placed his last outline in a safe deposit box. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson will now be completing the story that fans have waited 18 years to read.