Title Tales of Dune (Expanded Version) Author Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson Cover Art --- Publisher Wordfire Press - 2017 First Printing Wordfire Press - 2017
	Title Sands of Dune Author Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson Cover Art Matt Griffin Publisher Tor - 2022 First Printing Tor - 2022
	Title Tales from Arrakeen Author Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson Illustrator Adam Gorham, Jakub Rebelka Publisher BOOM! Studios - 2022 First Printing BOOM! Studios - 2022
	Title Waters of Kanly Author Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson Illustrator Francesco Mortarino Publisher BOOM! Studios - 2022 First Printing BOOM! Studios - 2022
	Category Science Fiction Warnings None Main Characters Spans the entire cast of all the Dune characters Main Elements Empires Website Brian Herbert

Tales of Dune

Sands of Dune

Tales from Arrakeen

Waters of Kanly

Tales of Dune - Overall a good collection but you have to have read nearly all of the Brian Herbert books as well as his father's since the tales are scattered throughout the time line. A few were just ok, a couple were terrible, and a couple were brilliant, about what one expects in a collection of stories.

Hunting Harkonnen taking place before The Butlerian Jihad, tells the tale of Xavier's older brother Piers who is shot down by the cymeks on what appears to be Caladan(?) and is hunted by them only to be rescued by a group of natives and he spends the rest of his life there. An exciting tale, but I didn't even remember Xavier had a brother so it didn't have as much interest as it could have had, though it tells how his parents died.

The second takes place before The Machine Crusade, Whipping Mek is about Vergyl, Xavier's adopted younger brother and his frustrations about being held back by his overprotective older brother and was a nice enough snippet about a character we didn't get to see too much of.

The third, which takes place The Battle of Corrin, The Faces of a Martyr felt a bit like the authors has some scenes they had to cut and just stuffed them into a short story, I didn't see the point of it, didn't feel it gave us anything much new (especially as I complained about the trilogy being overly long).

Red Plague can be read for free on Tor.com and takes place during the Schools of Dune trilogy, and interesting tale of two characters working off of their own self-interest and yet one seems a villain and the other a hero but both are thinking of no one but themselves.

Wedding Silk takes place during Prelude of Dune, with Paul having a dangerous misadventure with Duncan and a couple other swordmasters while seeking a wedding gift for his father's bride.

A Whisper of Caladan Seas is a beautiful tale from a unique point of view. If you recall in the first Dune novel, the Atreides soldiers were trapped in a cave in by the Harkonnen forces. This is what happened to them in their last hours when all hope had been lost.

Sea Child takes place towards the end of the series. Reverend Mother Corysta was sent to Buzzell for having wanted to keep her child. Here, she finds another and fills in a small piece only referred to in the novels.

Treasure in the Sand takes place at the very end, on the burnt out shell of Arrakis, a priest returns seeking holy relics and perhaps the notice of his Divided God, finding a treasure greater than anyone could have hoped for.

Sands of Dune -

The Edge of a Crysknife - Here we get the background story of the Shadout Mapes. She might be a minor character that doesn't get to live very long after we meet her in the original Dune novel, but she's immediately interesting and mysterious, this Fremen servant who worked for the Fenrings and then for the Atreides. But it was always strange to have a Fremen woman working for the outworlders and here we find out why she's here and not fighting with the rest of her kin out in the desert.

Blood of the Sardaukar - If you recall in the original Dune novel, there was a Sardaukar officer charged with making sure that the Harkonnen's didn't torture Duke Leto. This is his story. I liked this, as it picks a character that shows up for maybe one page and probably has a couple sentences of dialog and gives him a personality, a background, a reminder that even the most minor characters were actually someone and have their own stories to tell.

The Waters of Kanly - In the original Dune series we know that Gurney Halleck joined the spice smugglers after House Arteides fell. I'm debating if this is the kind of heist Gurney would have gotten involved in, effective though it was. Not as good as some of the other tales.

Imperial Court - This takes place after Navigators of Dune (I had to stop reading this book so I read that one first), it focuses on the rivalry and hatred between House Atreides and House Harkonnen and how essentially impossible it is to stop such a feud by killing your enemies, you just create more wounds that call for revenge. The one issue I have with this rivalry story is that it takes place TEN THOUSAND years before the events in Dune. That's a seriously long time for a feud to drag out no? Most family bloodlines don't last that long, let alone not a single person figuring out how to make peace between the two families, and not a single person figuring out how to exterminate the other family. I dunno. I mean are there any family trees that can trace themselves back to five thousand year before the Egyptian pharaohs were around? I think both father and son didn't quite grasp the timelines they were dealing with when building their worlds and how really different things will be in that time. And that's ten thousand years after the Bulterian Jihad, which is some unknown number of centuries in our future.

Tales from Arrakeen - This graphic novel contains two stories, the first is Blood of the Sardaukar (prose version found in Sands of Dune). I really enjoyed this one, beautiful artwork and a touching story about revenge, honour and betrayal, and as I mentioned above, reminding us that even the minor characters have lives, backgrounds and stories of their own. And talking about the power of stories, A Whisper of Caladan Seas (prose version found in Tales of Dune, as well as Road to Dune) is such a touching tale, one may need a kleenex when reading this one. I like the artwork less than in Blood of the Sardaukar but that doesn't mean it was bad, I just found that people's faces has so many wrinkles and scarring that I struggled to find Gurney's scar and that other characters had such deeply lined face they looked like they must have had their own encounters with inkvine whips. But these two are indeed my two favorites of all the stories, perhaps because they take place during the first Dune book, perhaps they just have that much more emotion attached to them.

Waters of Kanly - This is a graphic novel rendering of the Gurney Halleck story collected in Sands of Dune. The one thing I do want to comment on here is the reader I used for this graphic novel. I borrowed it online through my library and it was actually quite interesting as it zoomed into specific panels as you clicked forward, it was almost like watching stills from a movie rather than having a giant page with several panels in it (which is actually hard to read on a computer screen since it shrinks everything down to fit), so I ended up enjoying this read more than the story really warranted.