Hiyah, o bien ola, supongo,
Apologies for delays.... real life catching up with me.
Now as far as a continuation, I tried several stuff, and almost always ended up disappointed by the lack of depths of the other sagas I was finding.
In brief I tried:
Dragons of Pern, McCaffrey ... well yeah as I've put somewhere else (do not read if for a try) the whole series ends up in being too softly feminist.
There was also a series by W. Vance, exploiting themes of conspiracy in a celtic world (i cannot remember the name now, and anyway might be meaningless for I read it in French initially). Again like the Pern thingy, quite softy and lacking depth and in my view quite soiled by a gendered reductionism on women and their psychology.
In much better though it never stuck me to my chair as Dune did are the Swords and Wizzadry Chronicles (probably misspell the title) by F. Leiber. At least you have villains who are good blokes and good blokes who are completely perverted and evil at times.
What fascinated me in Dune is partly the mixing up of gender and the impossibility to expect easily a certain behaviour from a character. Paul in between man and woman as a foreseeer, and a man in Dune Messiah. Same with Chani: sweet fragile woman and fierce conspirator if needed. Ghanima alike her mum yet departing by being more a woman. Duncan Idaho is the most fascinating in this: just a servant to the dice that is being thrown as the tool for eciding the fate of the whole universe?
Best as always,
Morry
