Editing Children of Dune (section)

==Critical reception==
Initially selling over 75,000 copies, ''Children of Dune'' became the first hardcover best-seller in the science fiction field.<ref name="Touponce 119">{{cite book|last=Touponce |first=William F. |year=1988 |title=Frank Herbert|chapter=Herbert's Reputation|location=[[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]|publisher=Twayne Publishers imprint, G. K. Hall & Co|page=119 |isbn=0-8057-7514-5|quote=When Herbert completed the third book of the series, ''Children of Dune'' (1976), it became an authentic hardcover best-seller with seventy-five thousand copies sold (not including book club sales). It was the first hardcover best-seller ever in the science fiction field.}}</ref> The novel was critically well-received for its gripping plot, action, and atmosphere,<ref name="NYT 1976">{{cite news|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0B15FB3454157A93C3A91783D85F428785F9&scp=52&sq=gerald+jonas&st=p|title=Of Things To Come|  first=Gerald |last=Jonas|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 1, 1976|page=176}}</ref> and was nominated for the [[Hugo Award]] for [[Hugo Award for Best Novel|Best Novel]] in 1977.<ref name="Hugo77">{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1977-hugo-awards/ |title=1977 Hugo Awards |publisher=World Science Fiction Society |access-date=March 8, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507164635/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1977-hugo-awards/ |archive-date=May 7, 2011 }}</ref>

The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' called ''Children of Dune'' "a major event", and ''Challenging Destiny'' noted that "Herbert adds enough new twists and turns to the ongoing saga that familiarity with the recurring elements brings pleasure."<ref name="Praise">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RxxwnkPHlfEC&q=Praise%20for%20the%20Dune%20Chronicles|title=Children of Dune|chapter=Praise for the ''Dune'' Chronicles|first=Frank|last=Herbert|date=1976|edition=2008|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|isbn=9781440630514|access-date=May 24, 2020}}</ref> ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' wrote, "Ranging from palace intrigue and desert chases to religious speculation and confrontations with the supreme intelligence of the universe, there is something here for all science fiction fans."<ref name="Praise"/> In a 1976 review, [[Spider Robinson]] found ''Children of Dune'' unsatisfying, faulting the ending as unconvincing and thematically overfamiliar.<ref>{{cite news |title=Galaxy Bookshelf |first=Spider |last=Robinson |author-link=Spider Robinson|work=[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]|date=September 1976|pages=111–13}}</ref> The novel is referred to in ''[[A Thousand Plateaus]]'' (1980) by [[Gilles Deleuze]] and [[Félix Guattari]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Deleuze, Gilles |author2=Guattari, Félix |title=A Thousand Plateaus |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |location=Minneapolis |year=1993 |pages=390, 559 |isbn=0-8166-1402-4 }}</ref> [[David Pringle]] gave the novel a rating of two stars out of four and described the novel as "dark and convoluted stuff."<ref>{{cite book |first=David |last=Pringle |author-link=David Pringle |title=The Ultimate Guide To Science Fiction |location=New York |publisher=Pharos Books: [[St. Martin's Press]] |date=1990 |isbn=0886875374 |page=[https://archive.org/details/ultimateguidetos00prin/page/58 58] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/ultimateguidetos00prin/page/58 }}</ref>