(September 5, 2023 at 8:52 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:Concur. ~55 years later I re-read it and didn't find a serious quibble. Definitely NOT Bullard of the Space Patrol. (My first scifi book. Read it while they were burying JFK. Lordy, it was pulp. Jonny Quest level.)(September 5, 2023 at 5:20 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: If I may ask, what's so great about Dune.
The world-building. It approaches the complexity of the Middle-Earth canon. And it grapples with very deep ideas...the limits of human ability...climate change...how harsh environments mold a society...the consequences of unbridled technological advance (especially in the area of AI)...It's not just another piece of interstellar derring-do.
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