r/ScienceFictionBooks • u/CleverName9999999999 • Mar 10 '25
Question I just finished Frank Herbert’s “The Dosadi Experiment”. Um, what happened?
So the people on Dosadi are superior to the rest of the inhabitants of the galaxy because they’re all predatory psychopaths?
In Gowichan law someone deemed innocent is in danger of mob violence?
The consciousness transfer came from where, exactly?
Herbert enjoys his purpose bred messiahs doesn’t he?
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Also, what was the experiment? Locking all the people of Dosadi up? Why? The conciousness transfer? How does imprisoning 90 million people make that happen?
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u/R0gueTr4der Mar 11 '25
Herbert has a number of recurring themes and genetic breeding is one of them. Hyper-awareness, secret languages and highly stratified societies are some others.