On December 22, the first season of the TV show “Dune: Prophecy” ended.

Years after the death of Frank Herbert, the author of the original Dune novels, his son Brian and Kevin J. Anderson started writing stories, generally in mini-series of two or three novels, set in the same fictional universe. I read several of them but frankly, at a certain point, I got bored because the level seemed to me to be that of fanfiction that lacked all the nuances that were a great strength of the original works.

“Dune: Prophecy” is set several decades after the end of the Butlerian jihad. The titles indicate a connection with the novel “Sisterhood of Dune” but the show is set after those events, in a period in which the Imperium is still seeking stability.