Series
Schools of Dune
Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson · 3 novels · 1 short story · 2012–2016
Schools of Dune is one of several prequel trilogies Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson have written extending Frank Herbert's Dune universe, drawing on notes Frank Herbert left behind. Comprising Sisterhood of Dune, Mentats of Dune, and Navigators of Dune (2012–2016), it depicts the founding of the Bene Gesserit, Mentat, and Navigator orders generations before the events of the original Dune, sitting within a larger web of Herbert-and-Anderson prequel trilogies set before the six-book original saga.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Schools of Dune at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s4
Shape
3 novels · 1 short story
2 authors
reads like:science fictionpolitical intrigueother star systemsfar futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Sisterhood of Dunedarkest · calmest
- Mentats of Dunebrightest · most intense