DUNE Authors Win Advance Rumored to Be the Largest for a Single Science Fiction Contract

Kevin J. Anderson and his writing partner, Brian Herbert, have been awarded what is rumored to be the largest advance on a single science fiction contract for the next series of DUNE novels, which bests their last advance, also a rumored record-breaker.

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (PRWEB) March 14, 2004 --One might say this has been author Kevin J. Andersons month. The science fiction worlds invisible man" has been long renowned as one of its most prolific writers. Now hes also known as sci-fis best-paid author, securing a rumored-to-be record-breaking advance, a three-book publishing deal for his own The Saga of Seven Suns" space opera series, and a renewed film and TV option, all in one 30-day period.

Anderson, along with writing partner Brian Herbert, was awarded a contract from U.S.-based Tor Books and U.K.-based Hodder & Stoughton. The deal includes the two-volume grand climax" to the Dune" chronicles, based directly on the Dune 7" outline written by creator Frank Herbert, as well as The Road to Dune," a compendium of never-before-published chapters from Dune" and Dune Messiah," plus original stories and a short novel written by Anderson and Brian Herbert.
Frank Herberts classic DUNE is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time, the genres equivalent to LORD OF THE RINGS. When Herbert died in 1986, he left his DUNE CHRONICLES uncompleted-in fact, the last published novel, CHAPTERHOUSE DUNE, ends on a cliffhanger. Before he died, he placed his last outline in a safe deposit box. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson will now be completing the story that fans have waited 18 years to read.

Additionally, Anderson has sold Books 4 -- 6 of his own science fiction space opera epic, The Saga of Seven Suns," to Warner Aspect in the U.S. and Simon & Schuster in the U.K. via Trident Media Group. The popular series has already branched out into comics with a newly published hardcover graphic novel from DC/Wildstorm titled The Saga of Seven Suns: Veiled Alliances."

Also this month, Andersons film and TV option on his Captain Nemo" novel has been renewed by Steven L. Sears (Xena, A-Team, Sheena) at PondaLee Productions and Gabriel Grunfeld (The Stepford Wives) at Laureate Films for the third year in a row.

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