Ok so I just read this, its fun, also fucking Ivan HOWEVER the interesting thing is how quickly sci-fi becomes obsoletepic.twitter.com/Sm3F5BR8Lq
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It was a super fun read but it feels a bit as if Romans wrote stories of interplanetary travel on chariots pulled by very large horses, and continued to fight with swords in space-battles (Yeah I know about the one) So I suppose not so far from Red Mars Still Bit bewildering
Here's the one I was thinking of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story …
I'm fine with "weirdly un-advanced technology sector" but they are portrayed as having, like, super fancy genetic science that they use to arrange the selective breeding! Which is just weird! Why bother!
Plus it falls into the standard "sf/f selective breeding aristocracy" trope where the plan is super complicated or whatever rather than "herp derp cross the good ones with the good ones".
Realistic in that it would allow corrupt decadent elite sex cults and the adjoining cruelty to the lower class (which seems to be a consistent theme in humanity)
Cetaganda is great fun, as is most of the series. It helps some to presume that with vagaries of time and strife, some technologies are not terribly advanced in some places. Also religious/cultural factors could inhibit e.g. advanced biotech. (Now, Jackson's Whole ...)
that's one of the best things about Dune, there are a bunch of things missing where you'd expect relentless technological progress and the answer for why is always "religion"
I didn’t really read it as “selective breeding” so much as about how the culture determines which genes even get on the menu of options for splicing directly into the haut lines.
There's a lot of gene-splicing going on there, contrary to what the phrase “selective breeding” connotes to me.
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