1. The two big sci-fi epics of this fall are Dune & Foundation, which spring from the same source: John W. Campbell's Astounding magazine (remained Analog in 1960). Which also gave the world Starship Troopers, the Thing, and, oh, yes, various religions, including Scientology.
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6. One way to read Dune is that Herbert took all the things that made Campbell excited (ESP, superman, galactic imperial conquest, eugenics) but showed the downsides: he inverted Campbell's universe (mostly in later books not serialized in Analog).
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7. Lots more going on in Dune: a prescient critique of resource extraction imperialism & US foreign policy, the myth of Lawrence of Arabia, Catholicism, Islam, Indigenous cultures (particularly the Quileute).
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Well, that explains Heinlein (although still doesn’t explain why his bs is so popular)
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I suspect it is because men like Cambell never went away in the sf fandom.
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The letters between Herbert and Campbell on Messiah are revealing
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Philip K. Dick's introduction to "The Golden Man" collection as 'stories that broke all of Campbell's rules' (or something like that). He's not the only author of the period who seemed to have relished earning the standing to no longer have to play to the editor.
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