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Dune stuff (awful.systems)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Architeuthis@awful.systems to c/morewrite@awful.systems

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In continuation of the recent dune stuff stubsack subthread so anyone interested doesn't need to go spelunking in the hundreds of posts superthread that's already halfway out of the main page.

Apologies for being late in replying.

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[–] TheLazyHase@awful.systems 1 points 23 hours ago

There's one thing in Dune that I find Actually Revolutionary and that extremely few books series have succeded at It give the impression that tech actually advance. At a glacial pace, but also in ways that fundamentally change the settings.

Face dancers and synthetic spice are the two big one, in that they change the Dune world very significantly, and also relatively gradually. Compare and contrast with 40k, where they talk about new techs all the time but they never change the balance of power or really do anything, or Star Wars where it's unclear if any technologies actually get more advanced in the story.