Sandworms of Dune

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If the ending is anything like that outline proposed, it turns out that Frank Herbert wanted the end of the Dune series to be about humanity's material nature. The story echoes what so many other SF-writers wrote and still write: thinking, self-conscious robots, like any advanced self-conscious form of A.I., aren't morally or ethically different from a biological human. It is electricity that runs through our nerves, we are robots ourselves, made of flesh: "moist robots", as Dilbert creator Scott Adams coined it.

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Reading Sandworms Of Dune I never had the feeling Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson showed any respect: no respect for the source material, and no respect for the intelligence of their readers.

I'm seriously thinking of not bringing this to the secondhand bookstore, but burning it.

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