Heretics of Dune
The Dune series, next to Asimov's Foundation series, is I think my favourite SF series. Frank Herbert builds a great universum, and uses it as a backdrop for an extensive exploration of politics, ecology, religion, economics, philosophy and even linguistics. As a teenager, twenty years ago, I was immediately hooked by the idea of the Atreides battle language, having evolved seperate from other languages, the historical pathways back to ancient Greece, and the necessities of survival in the ecology of Dune. I must have read the whole series at least a dozen times. Comparing it to my favourites in other parts of our book collection, I think I simply have a weakness for authors trying to write a story as encompassing as the Grand Theory of Everything. Frank Herbert is one of them. For the later works, building on the Dune story, as written by Herbert's son in collaboration with other SF writers I don't care much at all. They seem flat and superficial in comparison, leaving much too little to the imagination.
The other 5 books in this series are:
Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, Book 2)
Children of Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 3)
