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I haven't been able to read anything in the Sci-Fi genre that even comes close to the Dune series.

I read Foundation by Asimov very recently because I was told it's the best of the best. While I thoroughly enjoyed it, I still don't think it's on Dune's level.

Any suggestions? I think by reading Herbert's works I broke my Sci-Fi bone.

>> No.3567711

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe has kind of the same feel to it as Dune.

>> No.3567744

Personally Iain Banks' Culture universe is quite entertaining.

>> No.3567764

>>3567711

This, and Gene Wolfe is a much better writer than Herbert.

>> No.3567782

>>3567711
>>3567764
>The tetralogy chronicles the journey and ascent to power of Severian, a disgraced journeyman torturer who becomes Autarch, the one ruler of the free world. It is a first-person narrative, ostensibly translated by Wolfe into contemporary English, set in the distant future when the Sun has dimmed and Earth is cooler (a "Dying Earth" story).

Thoroughly intrigued. Thanks a lot!

>> No.3567825

I'm one volume in to the Wolfe right now, and I'm not sold on it. In particular, it's not big on direction - with a lot of episodic stuff and curious detail.

It's the kind of book where I guy sets off to pick up a MacGuffin, bumps into someone on the way there, goes on a detour to the haberdashers on a whim, eventually reaches the macguffin shop, decides to look at their alternate range of pastries, gets lost in the aisles, escapes, finds the macguffin section, then trips on his shoelaces and spends a chapter talking to the nice young lady who helps him back to his feet. I guess it has the same elements of mysticism and heavy setting detail as Dune, but I don't know that it's too similar (although, as mentioned, the prose is rather better). I'd second the Culture books.

>> No.3567842

>>3567825

In my opinion the Book of the New Sun barely has a plot, so that never bothered me. It's more about the characters and their development, if you know what I mean?