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OftenBen  ·  1982 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My First Reading of Dune

    I love how it all connects to a physical cellular and ancestral emotional drive almost gaining in power and understanding with every generation until culminating in the Kwisatz Haderach.

To me this is what showed off Herbert's writing skill.

He made things intergenerationally, historically convoluted and managed to tie it all up with a bow and piece of spice candy to boot.





Merlin  ·  1981 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, the dedication to generational plans amidst the different factions was one of the things that stood out the most to me. Humans nowadays can barely plan for their own lifetimes, let alone putting efforts into plans they'll never see carried out. It really helped me grasp the scale of the universe.