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RE: Dune And The Thinking Machines
I 💜 Frank Herbert. He is one of all-time favourite writers. Other than the Dune stuff, The Santaroga Barrier and The Godmakers I also highly, highly recommend.
I can’t remember whether the Mentats also depended on the Spice, or was it just the Bene Gesserit and Guild? There was something that Mentats took regularly, it stained their lips.
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I honestly read only Dune by Frank Herbert, but after this I think I might have to read the ones you suggested too. ;-)
Yeah... that Mentat stuff... what was that again, it was some kind of juice... Sapho juice!!
I went to look it up after reading your post and realised my copy Dune has disappeared. Maybe I lent it to someone... I don’t know.
I think I might like to go back and read God Emperor of Dune again. I think there’s quite a bit of really good stuff in that book.
It felt like the ‘2nd trilogy’ (God Emperor, Heretics, and Chapter House) was taking a very critical mirror to Imperial Christianity in a way, and comparing it to Pharaonic Egypt. That could also just be my own filters though 😉
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