No.58222
let's talk about dune
If a thread about dune was opened before this, I would appreciate it if you direct me there
but there is a question I want to ask
Is the weakest part of the dune the science fiction part?
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No.58223
It's a strange kind of question to ask. The point of the story wasn't to worldbuild far future tech, but to explore certain ideas. The butlerian jihad was his cop out for not exploring the tech stuff.
For me, the story is about accelerating returns. Things growing or changing so quickly, no one can predict or control them. Even people who can see into the future and the past. Often the reaction to accelerating processes in the books is not to attempt to control them in some way, or even slow them down, but to halt them completely. Computers advancing too fast and surpassing humans? No computers anymore. Humans become difficult to rule if they can expand across the stars off to infinity? Lock down interplanetary travel and colonization. I might become too much of a badass and kick off a religious jihad that will threaten humanity? Fade into the darkness to avoid becoming a new religious figure.
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No.58238
>>58222
Dune isn't cyberpunk though, it's just science fiction. Really damn good science fiction(at least the first five or six books were) but still just science fiction.
There's really no reason to discuss it here at all.
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No.58265
>>58238
reminder that this is a board for cyberpunk & science fiction
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