Started 'Dune.' It begins in Awkward Exposition Land. "I need no history lessons!" "True—you know we've a three-part civilization..."
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@sarahbarmak Alas Herbert is all exposition all the time. Type of s.f. writer who has great ideas but limited writerly abilities.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahbarmak Herbert's world-building especially in first Dune book is amazing and repays reading. But he breaks every shown not tell rule2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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@sarahbarmak I know, it's crazily replete with fresh ideas & inventiveness.
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