The book and the rest of the series are amazing. Books 2 and 3 get kind of dry but the rest are so good. Frank Herbert wrote some of the best fiction ever published, and some of it very pertinent to our times. "White Plague" is about a man who loses his family to a car bomb in Ireland and makes a virus in his basement that kills only women that he releases to Ireland, the UK, and Libya. The virus spreads across the world anyway and wipes out 99% of the women on the planet. "The Dosadi Experiment" is about a planet created and curated by the galactic elite to be brutal and polluted for the purpose of making the people on the planet as strong and resilient as possible so the elites can use a mind transfer technology to steal their bodies and live forever. Every series/book he wrote is mindblowing.
The book and the rest of the series are amazing. Books 2 and 3 get kind of dry but the rest are so good. Frank Herbert wrote some of the best fiction ever published, and some of it very pertinent to our times. "White Plague" is about a man who loses his family to a car bomb in Ireland and makes a virus in his basement that kills only women that he releases to Ireland, the UK, and Libya. The virus spreads across the world anyway and wipes out 99% of the women on the planet. "The Dosadi Experiment" is about a planet created and curated by the galactic elite to be brutal and polluted for the purpose of making the people on the planet as strong and resilient as possible so the elites can use a mind transfer technology to steal their bodies and live forever. Every series/book he wrote is mindblowing.
One of my favorites was "The Dragon in the Sea" (not exactly what the title suggests).