Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +MMDF+MULTI+2.11; site kcl-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!kcl-cs!ramsay From: ramsay@kcl-cs.UUCP (ZNAC440) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Series and sequels in SF and Fantasy Message-ID: <176@westo.kcl-cs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 23:17:41 EDT Article-I.D.: westo.176 Posted: Mon Jun 17 23:17:41 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Jun-85 01:57:19 EDT References: <2288@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: ramsay@westo.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: Department of Computing, Kings College, University of London. Lines: 22 Xpath: kcl-cs westo west44 In article <2288@topaz.ARPA> marotta%lezah.DEC@decwrl.ARPA writes: >One series, however, seems to have gone beyond the limits of good taste. >I am a lover of Herbert's Dune since I first read it. The concept lost >its flavor with the second of the books, and I mercilessly forced myself >to read God Emperor. I'm not going to bother with >any more Dune books. Frank Herbert has some fine and interesting >publications that are totally unrelated to the series. I suggest >White Plague as an interesting alternative. I would suggest any other books by Frank Herbert except the 'Dune' series. I find his other works so much in contrast to 'Dune' & Co. that it amazed me it was the same author. In particular, I recommend the Con-Sentiency stories, about BuSab, the Bureau of Sabotage.('The Tactful Saboteur' - short,from 'The Worlds of Frank Herbert','Whipping Star' - novel, and 'The Dosadi Experiment' also a novel.) Of these, The Dosadi Experiment is the best, and I put it as one of my top ten books ever. Frank writes good stuff. R. Ramsay