5/19/2023 0 Comments Best dune books![]() ![]() That’s why Dune 2021 is probably going to beat Foundation on screen: Herbert's world is shaped by discordant voices, by many truths, like our own Earth today. Spontaneous events would, and should, throw us off course. The bold light of science would not be leading the way like a train's headlight in a tunnel. When he thought about humanity’s future, Herbert realized it would come from the interaction between various forms of knowledge, and between differing cultures. Herbert was more interested in what an algorithm couldn't model: human irrationality. In Foundation, for example, a brilliant mathematician derives an algorithm to predict the destiny of his society, calculating that a thousand-year dark age is coming. That’s the genre Frank Herbert stripped and renovated to produce the Chalamet-less but still exciting book Dune in 1965.Įarlier sci-fi like Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series (also adapted for the screen this year for Apple TV+, with, we might say, concerning reviews) had treated science as an infallible force for good, a privileged type of learning that could make us rational, and lead us to the right answers. But this is a blog post about science fiction. ![]() ![]() In only two weeks from time of publication, we all get to stare at Timothée Chalamet’s beautiful angular face for two and half hours. Here’s why it makes a good book club book. What is science fiction? Writing about why we learn. ![]()
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