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Old 05-05-2010, 10:05 PM   #7
tboe77
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What do you like about them?


Maybe look into...
"Perdido Street Station" by China Mieville
"The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman

That question is hard to answer (but many good questions are).

I guess what I liked is how Herbert brought so many elements together. Technology, biology, ecology, physics, psychology, anthropology, religion, politics, history.... He brought all these things together to create a version of humanity thousands of years distant from the present day, and yet it still felt very connected to present day. The characters were great. I really liked the element of replacing machines with humans who were mutated and engineered for different purposes.

I found Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's Dune novels to be entertaining, but they just didn't have the depth that Frank Herbert's novels had.
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