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Originally Posted by HLS
I love the Dune books but I think 10,000 years is a long time. You can make computers that are not sentient and travel the galaxy without the Spice. but then again it's only a book.
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Possibly you can't make sentient computers at all, ever.
We've no idea how to travel the stars other than a spinning Generation ship (possibly 2 or 3 rotating on a tether).
But it's a book and far more Fantasy than SF. I thought the 1st good and went downhill fast. I read a few others by him, some not too bad and more like SF. Not that I at all dislike Fantasy, Sometimes boxing a book into a strictly defined genre isn't fair to it.
What sort of story is Riders of the Purple Sage? Is it "really" a Western?