Heroes of Dune

Heroes of Dune is a planned interquel tetralogy of novels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson set in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. The potential series was initially referred to as Paul of Dune by the authors as early as 2004.^[1][2]

Novels

The first book, Paul of Dune, was released on September 16, 2008.^[3] Half of the story takes place between Frank Herbert's Dune (1965) and Dune Messiah (1969) as Paul’s Jihad rages, Shaddam seeks to regain his throne and Princess Irulan accepts the "task of building the legend of Muad'Dib." She in turn chronicles Paul's early years (between the 2001 Brian Herbert/Anderson prequel House Corrino and Dune), which feature "his friendship with Duncan and Gurney and Duke Leto's War of Assassins against Grumman."^{[1][4] [5]}

The Winds of Dune (2009) (originally announced as Jessica of Dune)^[6][7]) was published on August 4, 2009. It chronicles events between Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah (1969) and Children of Dune (1976).^[8]

The final two novels in the series were to be called The Throne of Dune^[8] (formerly Irulan of Dune^[6][7]) and Leto of Dune (perhaps The Golden Path of Dune)^[8] However, in a July 15, 2010 blog post, Anderson announced that these novels had been postponed due to plans by Herbert and Anderson to publish a trilogy about "the formation of the Bene Gesserit, the Mentats, the Suk Doctors, the Spacing Guild and the Navigators, as well as the solidifying of the Corrino imperium."^[9]

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