Diary (October 21, 2021)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Saturday October 23, 2021.

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Frank Herbert

"Dune" was a novel of its time— planetary ecology, visionary drugs, mind-powered space travel, human breeding programs run by witches — all very 1960s.

But it doesn't hold up well after 55 years. And like much of Herbert's writing, it is competent but not excellent.

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Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles