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> Alex Schroeder's Butlerian Jihad That's Frank Herbert's Butlerian Jihad.
by breve 1y ago
> Alex Schroeder's Butlerian Jihad
That's Frank Herbert's Butlerian Jihad.
- dirkc 1y agoInteresting to think that the answer to banning thinking computers in Dune was basically to indoctrinate kids from birth (mentats) and/or doing large quantities of drugs (guild navigators).
- flanbiscuit 1y agoTo be fair, he was referring to a post on Alex Schroeder's blog titled with the same name as the term from the Dune books. And that post correctly credits Dune/Herbert. But the post is not about Dune, it's about Spam bots so it's more related to what the original author's post is about. Speaking of the Butlerian Jihad, Frank Herbert's son (Brian) and another author named Kevin J Anderson co-wrote a few books in the Dune universe and one of them was about the Butlerian Jihad. I read it. It was good, not as good at Frank Herbert's books but I still enjoyed it. One of the authors is not as good as the other because you can kind of tell the writing quality changing per chapter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune:_The_Butlerian_Jihad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune:_The_Butlerian_Jihad
- renewiltord 1y agoThat's really hard to believe. Brian Herbert's stuff seems sort of Fan Fiction In The World of Dune. Nothing wrong with fan fiction: The Last Ringbearer etc. are pretty enjoyable. But BH just follows on. His work has a bit of the feeling of people who lived in the ruins of the roman forum https://x.com/museiincomune/status/1799039086906474572 https://x.com/museiincomune/status/1799039086906474572
- int_19h 1y agoThose books completely misrepresent Frank Herbert's original ideas for Butlerian Jihad. It wasn't supposed to be a literal war against genocidal robots.