Man of Two Worlds

By: Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Frank Herbert's last published novel is a charming and witty science fiction adventure coauthored with his son Brian.

What if the entire universe were the creation of alien minds? After an unfortunate spaceship accident, the hedonistic human Lutt Hansen, Jr., finds himself sharing his body and mind with a naïve alien dreamer. Together the two must survive dangers, schemes, and assassination attempts - but can they survive each other?

©1986 Frank Herbert and Brian Herbert (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Maybe this earth should be deleted

The premise was original and had a lot of promise. Even the story itself was quite engaging. I thought that the writing had a good flow and the style and narration was great.

Unfortunately, not a single character in the book is even remotely likable. They're not even deeply flawed enough to be interesting as character studies. They're just superficial, self-centered and mildly sociopathic. I thought that there would be some deep self-discovery leading to transformations, but that never came.

Good writing should invoke something in the reader and, in that, this was successful. However, I'm just not sure that deep apathy towards the characters was what the author was going for.

Nice and tidy story. I liked it.

This book was mostly written by Brian, yet the philosophical elements of Frank's work were definitely noticeable.

Overall, it was a cool and imaginative story with twists all the way to the end. And plenty sci-fi.

I was sad it ended.

Some Frank but feels like mostly Brian

So I hoped this tale would be better so I was a little disappointed due to high expectations. The story was cool— fantasy storytelling makes really—but set in a sci-fi story. The aliens are gods of creation without knowledge of their own history. They are focused on earth due to free-will and how humans are dangerous to the tellers. When an alien child’s joyride turns the universe on its ear with repercussions to existence itself, this tale divides to focus on the reactions of the aliens and the impact to the alien child’s body and life on earth. It is a good story but still not as good as I wanted it to be, hence the straight 4s. It is not Dune but has a feel of Frank Herbert’s Godmakers or Heaven Makers…just not, due to Brian’s input I assume. While more modern in feel assuredly due to Brian Herbert’s input, it does not hit the heights I expected. We will see if I change my mind after relistening to it in the future. Recommend it to aliens visit earth fans as well as fantasy-science fiction crossover fans, baby!

Frank and Brian Herbert together with Scott Brick it gets no better than this!

You start with a premise that I have never encountered before, follow it with twists and turns in the plot that keep you guessing until the very end and then you have it performed by the man of 1000 voices Scott Brick and you have what has to be one of the most entertaining books of all times. The ending will floor you. The story flows so well that you wish for a second book with the same players. Thank you all.

Couldn't finish it

Too boring, the thought of 12 more hours of this pains me. The narration was a bit awkward to follow when multiple characters were talking back and forth.