Dune, 50 years on

Re:Dune, 50 years on by MarcScott on Saturday July 04, 2015 @11:09AM (#9830367)

I agree. A little like the Ender's Game series. The first two are great, and the rest seem a little like nothing more than a revenue source.

Obligatory XKCD link - https://xkcd.com/304/

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Re:Dune, 50 years on by jeffwass on Saturday July 04, 2015 @11:17AM (#9830391)

Am I the only one who didn't like Speaker for the Dead? To me it felt like a big let down after Ender's Game.

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Re:Dune, 50 years on by grogenaut on Saturday July 04, 2015 @01:05PM (#9830761)

You'll like the "Shadow" books then.

Enders game is a space battle thriller with a great twist.

Speaker is all about what do you consider "human" and what do you consider "alien". It was very mind expanding when I was 14.

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Re:Dune, 50 years on by reagency on Saturday July 04, 2015 @01:34PM (#9830851)

The alien-vs-human issue was covered in the beginning setup and then the end of ender's game, when ender realized what he had done. Do you need a whole other book to drive the point home?

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Re:Dune, 50 years on by snowwrestler on Saturday July 04, 2015 @12:52PM (#9830719)

I think that is the point--to show that situations that seem like inspiring hero stories from one perspective, are actually more complicated from a broader view.

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