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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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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Dune is interesting...it is in many ways Breaking Bad but Paul is so compelling that many (most?) don't recognize his turn towards darkness. It read very differently to me when I was a cocky teen than it does now. Messianism runs deep in American culture..it was a warning.
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I always felt like it was pretty obviously inverted in the first book? By the time you get to the end, you come to the realization that you've been reading a villain origin story the whole time.
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In particular it's an extension of Campbell's popular '40s author A E Van Vogt: superpowers, space aristocrats, wheels-within-wheels intrigue, a big scientific or pseudo-scientific idea (here ecology), a cosmic destiny.
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Frank Herbert represents the side of A.E. Van Vogt that didn't become Philip K. Dick.
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Herbert said in 1969 that Campbell specifically refused to serialize Dune Messiah because of that inversion, that Campbell was absolutely committed to Paul being an actual savior and couldn’t deal with Herbert’s critique.
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