Now why settle for an ordinary death?
The subtitle kind of spells out the McGuffin (the gimmick) that drives the action in the book: “Why Settle for an Ordinary Death When You Can Have a Perfect Finish?”
The story of Dune continues 12 years later (Bookends)Set 12 years after the original novel, Dune, this book skips past all the unpleasant things that had to happen in order for the oracular vision with which Paul “Muad’Dib” Atreides was blessed or cursed, by a combination of his genetic heritage, and an overdose of the spice called melange, to come to fruition.
In which the fate of the world is decided (Bookends) I have a whole shelf of Roger Zelazny, including two collaborations which I keep putting off reading just because I always hate to come to the end of a favourite author.
A 100-year-old mystery sheds light on a modern one (Bookends)
It’s odd that Deborah Crombie, who grew up in America and who lives in Texas, should produce such English-feeling books as her Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series, of which this is the ninth book since the first in 1993.