Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah, the much-anticipated follow-up to Dune, has been widely panned. Critics have called the novel disjointed, rushed, and convoluted. In this article, we’ll discuss why Dune Messiah feels like a first draft and why it fails to deliver on the reading experience one expects of Herbert’s work. The most obvious problem with… Continue reading ‘Dune Messiah’ Feels Like a First Draft