DieuFeb 23, 2024

I am re-reading Dune. This quote by the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam is remarkable:

“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

It's not about a Terminator-style AI-apocalypse where the machines want to kill us all dead. It's just an accurate prediction of what actually appears to be happening.

Show threadJ.H.Noyes
@hllizi
The plot of the Hyperion Cantos of very similar. Hyperion isn't better than the first two Dune books, but it is better than many of the other sequels. AB is on YT.
@slyyy
Feb 24, 2024 at 4:37amWeb
Show threadJim ReaFeb 26, 2024
@noyes @hllizi @slyyy Almost any random book in the library is better than many of the Dune sequels. 🤣 Frank Herbert may be the most uneven author of all time. He wrote a book called Destination Void where literally nothing happened in the entire book. I read the whole thing thinking “surely something will happen before the end”, but nope, nada, zip. But Dune and White Plague were brilliant.
Show threadDieuFeb 26, 2024
@provuejim @noyes @slyyy Sounds like you had reached the destination before you knew.