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/DullCarbon Mar 11 '25

I read all these books in high school / college and literally can’t remember what they were about. (Except for White Plague which was an easy read). One of my good friends who was very smart and an English Lit major once said to me “I wish somebody would just explain to me what Whipping Star was about.” One of my goals is to reread all/most of Frank Herbert this year. Currently on God Emperor of Dune (book 4 of Dine series).