The delicate intersection of book and fic

So, a while back I found a Highlander/Dune crossover. "How interesting!" I said to myself. I skimmed it, and the story looked promising but I couldn't make heads or tails of it without the classic sci-fi context. "No matter!" said I. "The book is on my TBR pile. I shall put a pin in this and return at the appropriate juncture!"

So having finished Dune, I returned to my AO3 marked for later and sat down to read the crossover.

And it still didn't make a lick of sense. In fact, it might have made even less sense.

Turns out it wasn't a Dune crossover. It was (from what I can tell from the wiki page) a Dune Messiah crossover.

It was tagged for Dune Series, rather than the first novel, so this is my mistake, not at all the writer's! But, uh, I'm not sure I am invested enough to want to read about the downfall of Paul Atreides, so it is very possible I am never going to read that fic after all.

Anyway, at least I finished Dune. Before the new year, even. *Waves little flag*