Re: I guess we'll have a few disagreements here, Dom 
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- Edit 1Before modification by Macharius at 19/04/2010 04:10:07 AM
Herbert saw Dune Messiah as a kind of coda to the first book. He had been convinced that Dune was a more powerful book if it stopped when Paul became Emperor, without his downfall.
Dune and Dune Messiah had been envisioned as a single book. Taken from the serial publishings in Analog forced him to break the original manuscript. The mid/late 60s was still a time when only the Hero was desired. The Anti-Hero of Paul Atreides was not at all desirable by the publishers, which along with the length of the text was why it was split up.