He replied, “That will be a podcast,” and when the host laughed, Meyer revealed he was serious: Khancasting with Nick MeyerĪs a guest on the latest episode of Page One: The Writer’s Podcast, Nicholas Meyer was asked about the project. Now it appears there might finally be some movement and a possible transition for the project into a new medium. However, the project never got past the writing stage, and as recently as April, Meyer was talking about how it remained dormant. It told the story of Khan Noonien-Singh’s time in exile on the planet Ceti Alpha V following the events of the Star Trek episode “Space Seed,” before Star Trek II. His Ceti Alpha V project has been revealed to have been written as a three-part mini-series when he was a consulting producer on the first season of Star Trek: Discovery. Do you really need another great review to buy this audiobook? Please.The saga of Nicholas Meyer’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan prequel has been going on for five years since the writer and director first hinted at it in a 2017 TrekMovie interview. And wait, it's followed by yet ADDITIONAL novels in the series, some better than others, and then yet ANOTHER series by the author's SON, done decades later, that provides tremendous PREQUELS, based on his father's notes? Finally, throw in excellent male and female narrators that fit the characters they portray, and individualize each character. In Dune, you get galaxy-sweeping politics, messianic jihads, genetically-enhanced warriors and spacefarers, pirates hiding ruling classes, clones that psychically destroy their victims, fantastic ecologies and creatures, religions that manipulate families and bloodlines, and countless castes intertwined with ruling houses that all depend upon a drug found only on one desolate planet - A planet with its own secret and massive agenda, hidden within the howling desert plains covering its surface. THAT'S what good writing demands of us, and if the author excels at his or her craft, this book is the perfect example of what can happen. I hungered for better writing that combined story, action, flow, cadence and for God's sake, CREATIVITY. ![]() From this book on, I became harder on myself, to read works that challenged me, that made me ponder well after finishing the novel. You made me demand better writing from the authors I followed, and better development, as well. This was one of the very first books that truly stirred my love for science fiction. Do You Really Need Another Great Review?įrank Herbert, I OWE you. I would say avoid this version, look for something else. ![]() ![]() If I hadn't read it beforehand, I wonder if I had liked it at all. and the only available version of a great book. Clearly they cut Vance's performance and added the "theatrical" chapters after. Some chapters feature a voice actor for Paul, one for Jessica, another for Stilgar and so on. For example: one chapter with the Baron would be read using different actors, another chapter using the main voice (Vance). But no, they added individual voices for each character. The main voice (I think he's Simon Vance) is great, they should have left him perform the entire book alone. They also clearly didn't record them using the same quality and you can hear a disturbing echo with some voices. For whatever reason, and this is sadly continued throughout the series, they chose to use a lot of voice actors, some good soma bad. Dune is one of my favorite books, I read it multiple times so I thought to give the audio version a go.
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