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A review by radmike
The Battle of Corrin by Brian Herbert
3.0
fuck, I lost the whole review i was writing
summary? at least this last book picks up a little in the end .
worst faults:
- shallow characters (power/greed/honor as motivations? really?)
- lack of motivations across the board
- why does the guild have a monopoly if FTL is possible w/o navigators?
- why does the B.G. form up, just because they suddenly see the magic potential of the humans race?
- so may people have prescient visions on melange, why do we need to go 10,000 years to Paul Maud'Dib if this shit happens all the time apparently
- apparently AI is too dumb to stand against plain ol' human trickery
- spend so much time railing against human slavery, only to never really address it in the end
trilogy should have been:
- strong technological human society
- no nobles or any of that shit yet
- use of AI-driven FTL ships to colonize the galaxy + drive commerce
- AI take over a planet or otherwise start going bonkers
- Have good AI vs. evil AI characters/societies, make the whole conflict more interesting instead of basically a single male-gendered dumb AI who apparently can't fathom humans
- start to form up societies like the B.G. / Ginaz / Tlulaxa / Mentats to provide human-centric alternatives to machines, make humanity stronger vs. the looming threat of machine annihalation
- as humanity rallies against the machines, have the jihad rage out of control, overwhelming the politicians trying to control it, destroying commerce, peace, everything
- show how B.G. etc, use the chaos to cement their power
- much much longer time spans, try not to focus on the same shallow characters the entire fucking time.
- drop humanity into dark ages as the jihad sweeps across the known universe
- discover Arrakis/spice, create Guild, start to bring humanity out of dark ages, bring society from agrarian to interstellar commerce through formalization of empire/league of nobles.
- some final battle where humanity finds/destroys the last strongholds of machines, using Guild prescience to track them down, setup the whole Harkonnen/Atreides vendetta
seriously, fucking squandered what could have been a great story
summary? at least this last book picks up a little in the end .
worst faults:
- shallow characters (power/greed/honor as motivations? really?)
- lack of motivations across the board
- why does the guild have a monopoly if FTL is possible w/o navigators?
- why does the B.G. form up, just because they suddenly see the magic potential of the humans race?
- so may people have prescient visions on melange, why do we need to go 10,000 years to Paul Maud'Dib if this shit happens all the time apparently
- apparently AI is too dumb to stand against plain ol' human trickery
- spend so much time railing against human slavery, only to never really address it in the end
trilogy should have been:
- strong technological human society
- no nobles or any of that shit yet
- use of AI-driven FTL ships to colonize the galaxy + drive commerce
- AI take over a planet or otherwise start going bonkers
- Have good AI vs. evil AI characters/societies, make the whole conflict more interesting instead of basically a single male-gendered dumb AI who apparently can't fathom humans
- start to form up societies like the B.G. / Ginaz / Tlulaxa / Mentats to provide human-centric alternatives to machines, make humanity stronger vs. the looming threat of machine annihalation
- as humanity rallies against the machines, have the jihad rage out of control, overwhelming the politicians trying to control it, destroying commerce, peace, everything
- show how B.G. etc, use the chaos to cement their power
- much much longer time spans, try not to focus on the same shallow characters the entire fucking time.
- drop humanity into dark ages as the jihad sweeps across the known universe
- discover Arrakis/spice, create Guild, start to bring humanity out of dark ages, bring society from agrarian to interstellar commerce through formalization of empire/league of nobles.
- some final battle where humanity finds/destroys the last strongholds of machines, using Guild prescience to track them down, setup the whole Harkonnen/Atreides vendetta
seriously, fucking squandered what could have been a great story