Comment by ks2048

3 days ago

In the book - is it men vs machines? Because it’s pretty clear in our world it will be men+machines vs men(probably also + some machines)

The book starts out thousands of years after it's all over... but later books (prequels) get into into it for us die-hard followers of the series.

  • The "later books" the "prequels" are not written by Frank Herbert, they're written by his son Brian and SF author Kevin J. Anderson. And not like Christopher Tolkien editing his father's notes, but a completely separate series with nothing in common with the original work.

Yeah, basically.

the immediate cause of the Jihad is the abortion of the healthy fetus of a Bene Gesserit, Jehanne Butler, by an AI."

  • And which is better explained as two eugenics programs at clashing into each other, both working on dominating the general populace (Bene Gesserit arguably on larger scale than Komos' single-system thing), and Bene Gesserit using their long-worked socio-religious manipulation for revenge that gets out of hand