(September 5, 2023 at 6:10 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I will confess that I didn't finish the second Dune book, Dune Messiah. Part of that was because I couldn't hold a book for more than a few minutes at that time, the rest was Niven and Pournelle, mostly.
That book is the shortest of the six by Frank Herbert, and it ends on an (apparent) downer, but it really lays out the pattern for everything that follows, most importantly the serial Duncan Idahos and the depiction of prescience as a terrible trap.
