What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Re: What is the last book you read, and your rating?
4/5
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Book: Rhuna: New Horizons
Author Barbara Underwood
This series is awesome in so many ways!
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It focuses on the sister of transgender Liam/Luna. It doesn't pull punches. I wasn't always a fan of the characters, but they were real, and I have to respect that.
I rated it a 4 out of 4.
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This is quality science fiction from what I consider to be the golden age of the genre, before space travel was a reality and the imaginations of writers such as Herbert were fertile, ground-breaking and quite prolific.
Dune is set on the planet Arrakis, a desert-like planet, subject to a severe lack of water, fierce wind storms and giant worms more than 200 metres in length. But it is also rich with a spice, a mélange, which is harvested at great risk to be exported at massive profits throughout the galaxy.
Herbert provides extensive detail about the world of Arrakis - its ecology, its religions, spice mining, the essential nature of water and the nature of the giant worms. And there is plenty of fighting, blood, violence and gore to satisfy just about anyone who fancies that kind of thing. The story is overlain with a sense of mysticism and religion, with elements of the supernatural and magical powers. The novel well transcends the boundary between science fiction and fantasy genres.
This is definitely worth a read for those who like quality sci-fi -4 stars out of 5
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Redlegs wrote:Dune by Frank Herbert is now more than 50 years old (1965), and I first read it at least 35 years ago. I was impressed enough then to read most of the several following novels in the series, and I remain impressed by this novel more than 3 decades later.
This is quality science fiction from what I consider to be the golden age of the genre, before space travel was a reality and the imaginations of writers such as Herbert were fertile, ground-breaking and quite prolific.
Dune is set on the planet Arrakis, a desert-like planet, subject to a severe lack of water, fierce wind storms and giant worms more than 200 metres in length. But it is also rich with a spice, a mélange, which is harvested at great risk to be exported at massive profits throughout the galaxy.
Herbert provides extensive detail about the world of Arrakis - its ecology, its religions, spice mining, the essential nature of water and the nature of the giant worms. And there is plenty of fighting, blood, violence and gore to satisfy just about anyone who fancies that kind of thing. The story is overlain with a sense of mysticism and religion, with elements of the supernatural and magical powers. The novel well transcends the boundary between science fiction and fantasy genres.
This is definitely worth a read for those who like quality sci-fi -4 stars out of 5
I have read and loved the book as well. A great book indeed!
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I'm rating it a 4/5, because of how the whole story was put together. It was a little hard for me to follow what was happening, because everything was all over the place.
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