Children of Dune
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Children of Dune
| Author | Frank Herbert |
|---|---|
| Published | 1976 |
| Pages | 504 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The third of Frank Herbert’s six Dune novels, following Paul Atreides’s twin children as the religion built around their father hardens into an institution to be inherited or broken, and as the terraforming of Arrakis starts destroying the ecology and culture that made the planet what it was. The volume where Herbert’s ecological argument turns on itself: the successful engineering project is the loss. |
Children of Dune
Where I heard about it
- a16z’s infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in the Sci-fi — Must reads section (S tier), under the Dune series. A book about the unintended consequences of a long-horizon system is roughly why they recommend the sequence rather than the first book alone.
About this edition
Serialized in Analog in 1976 — the last Dune book serialized before book publication.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- a16z — the firm whose infrastructure team curates it.
- Frank Herbert — the author.
- Dune — volume one.
- Dune Messiah — volume two.
- God Emperor of Dune — volume four, which jumps millennia past this one.
- Historical Futurism — the research lens.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.