Heretics of Dune

This is the 5th article on my reread of the Dune series. It's an analysis of 11,600 words.

Among other things, the text looks at Herbert's narrative bluff, and examines the Bene Gesserit's motivations. It discusses love, heresy and variation as themes in the novel, and looks at how the book's characters are permutations of those of Dune. I try the explain why I liked this book the most of the sequels, even with all its shortcomings. The most important focus of the analysis is on a major shift in the series, as in Heretics, under the influence of Einstein and quantum theory, Herbert casts prescience not as something passive, but as an active, shaping force. This sea change alters the ontology underlying the series drastically. I also look at an underlying principle Herbert uses: perception shaping reality.

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