Muad'Dib History is written by one reader who has been going through these books for a long time, slowly and without a plan, and who eventually noticed that most of the interesting conversations about them happen between people who have read the adaptations and people who have read the books, and that neither side is quite right.
The blog exists because the series is large, difficult and much better than its reputation for being hard to read suggests. It rewards a second reading, a reading order, a few pages of notes, and one or two arguments that the rest of the world has not had yet. Everything here is written in the belief that the books are worth taking seriously, which does not mean taking them too seriously.
What it covers: Frank Herbert's original cycle and the novels that continued it, the ecology and the politics of the desert world, the families and institutions that hold it together, and every screen version made since the mid nineteen eighties, including the newest television work. The subjects overlap constantly, because in these books a change of costume is usually a change of argument.
How often it posts: roughly every two weeks, sometimes more often when a new adaptation arrives and there is something to say about it. Posts go out in reading order through the season, so a new reader can start at the beginning of the archive and work forward, and an old reader can jump straight to the piece they want. There is no schedule beyond that, and no newsletter.
The writer can be reached by email only. Letters are read, and the ones that contain a disagreement about the fourth novel are the most welcome of all.
These posts are personal writing about other people's books.