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    The Dosadi Experiment

    By Frank Herbert

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    From author Frank Herbert, creator of the Dune series, comes this classic science fiction of a sadistic experiment created by a interstellar civilization ... THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT


    Beyond the God Wall

    Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, conditioned by constant hunger and war-this is the Dosadi Experiment, and it has succeeded too well. For the Dosadi have bred for Vengeance as well as cunning, and they have learned how to pass through the shimmering God Wall to exact their dreadful revenge on the Universe that created them . . .

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 16, 2002
    ISBN9781466814721
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    Frank Herbert

    Frank Herbert (1920-1986) created the most beloved novel in the annals of science fiction, Dune.  He was a man of many facets, of countless passageways that ran through an intricate mind.  His magnum opus is a reflection of this, a classic work that stands as one of the most complex, multi-layered novels ever written in any genre.  Today the novel is more popular than ever, with new readers continually discovering it and telling their friends to pick up a copy.  It has been translated into dozens of languages and has sold almost 20 million copies. As a child growing up in Washington State, Frank Herbert was curious about everything. He carried around a Boy Scout pack with books in it, and he was always reading.  He loved Rover Boys adventures, as well as the stories of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and the science fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs.  On his eighth birthday, Frank stood on top of the breakfast table at his family home and announced, "I wanna be a author."  His maternal grandfather, John McCarthy, said of the boy, "It's frightening. A kid that small shouldn't be so smart." Young Frank was not unlike Alia in Dune, a person having adult comprehension in a child's body.  In grade school he was the acknowledged authority on everything.  If his classmates wanted to know the answer to something, such as about sexual functions or how to make a carbide cannon, they would invariably say, "Let's ask Herbert. He'll know." His curiosity and independent spirit got him into trouble more than once when he was growing up, and caused him difficulties as an adult as well.  He did not graduate from college because he refused to take the required courses for a major; he only wanted to study what interested him.  For years he had a hard time making a living, bouncing from job to job and from town to town. He was so independent that he refused to write for a particular market; he wrote what he felt like writing.  It took him six years of research and writing to complete Dune, and after all that struggle and sacrifice, 23 publishers rejected it in book form before it was finally accepted. He received an advance of only $7,500. His loving wife of 37 years, Beverly, was the breadwinner much of the time, as an underpaid advertising writer for department stores.  Having been divorced from his first wife, Flora Parkinson, Frank Herbert met Beverly Stuart at a University of Washington creative writing class in 1946.  At the time, they were the only students in the class who had sold their work for publication.  Frank had sold two pulp adventure stories to magazines, one to Esquire and the other to Doc Savage.  Beverly had sold a story to Modern Romance magazine.  These genres reflected the interests of the two young lovers; he the adventurer, the strong, machismo man, and she the romantic, exceedingly feminine and soft-spoken. Their marriage would produce two sons, Brian, born in 1947, and Bruce, born in 1951. Frank also had a daughter, Penny, born in 1942 from his first marriage.  For more than two decades Frank and Beverly would struggle to make ends meet, and there were many hard times.  In order to pay the bills and to allow her husband the freedom he needed in order to create, Beverly gave up her own creative writing career in order to support his.  They were in fact a writing team, as he discussed every aspect of his stories with her, and she edited his work.  Theirs was a remarkable, though tragic, love story-which Brian would poignantly describe one day in Dreamer of Dune (Tor Books; April 2003).  After Beverly passed away, Frank married Theresa Shackelford. In all, Frank Herbert wrote nearly 30 popular books and collections of short stories, including six novels set in the Dune universe: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune.  All were international bestsellers, as were a number of his other science fiction novels, which include The White Plague and The Dosadi Experiment.  His major novels included The Dragon in the Sea, Soul Catcher (his only non-science fiction novel), Destination: Void, The Santaroga Barrier, The Green Brain, Hellstorm's Hive, Whipping Star, The Eyes of Heisenberg, The Godmakers, Direct Descent, and The Heaven Makers. He also collaborated with Bill Ransom to write The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect, and The Ascension Factor.  Frank Herbert's last published novel, Man of Two Worlds, was a collaboration with his son, Brian.

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    • 2/5
      Dosadi is a planet set up for people reduced to the lowest common denominator in order to survive. They are not Happy campers. One is asked to care if they escape or improve local conditions.
    • 4/5
      This was a book that I had thought I read in the past but turned out to be new to me (unless extreme CRS has set in). This was a solid space opera tale told by one of the past masters of this genre and was a really enjoyable story. I will need to pick up the first story with Jorj X. Mckie so I can see the past that is discussed in this one.

      4.5 stars for a really fun read. Recommended for any fans of space opera especially if you enjoyed Dune!!
    • 4/5
      Jorj X. McKie, while lesser known than Paul Maud'Dib, could have been just as popular had Herbert dedicated more writing to tell McKie's stories.His title is "saboteur extraordinary", working for the Bureau of Sabotage. Though, "working" isn't exactly the right word to describe what he does for BuSab, as McKie loves doing his job.As part of a plot to uncover nefarious uses of the jump gate technology (that is, technology that allows instantaneous travel from one point in the universe to another), McKie discovers Dosadi, a world cut off from the rest of ConSentiency via a practically impenetrable barrier called the God Wall.McKie befriends Dosadi's Senior Liator, Keila Jedrik, and the two do what McKie does best: sabotage, sabotage, sabotage, in hopes of liberating the people trapped on Dosadi, and to prevent the other bureaus from gaining too much power.Not as great as Dune, but still definitely Herbert's excellent prose. Recommended for true fans of Frank Herbert.
    • 3/5
      This is a very difficult novel for me to review. It is brilliantly written and extremely deep in a philosophical sense. Too deep, in fact, for me to simply read and enjoy. I read for pleasure and this book requires either extreme intelligence or more effort than I'm willing to expend strictly for pleasure reading. I read and enjoyed Dune very much. One of my favorite novels of all time. This novel is very similar to some of the sequels to Dune (God Emperor of Dune, Chapterhouse Dune) which I felt got too bogged down in deep philosphical discussions that quite simply lost me. I am a very well educated person and no idiot, however I'm definitely not smart enough to fully appreciate this novel. I read the book and followed the story line, but feel like I missed so much of the underlying meaning that it was a waste of my time. I could probably read, reread and ponder many sections and ultimately gain a greater appreciation, but I'm challenged sufficiently at work. I read to relax and decompress. This is not relaxing reading. Bottom line: If you are very intelligent and/or a deep thinker who reads in order to broaden your mind or challenge yourself, this novel will certainly do the trick. If you read strictly for pleasure and want science fiction, read Asimov instead. This book is Dune on steroids.
    • 5/5
      So brilliant I could feel clostrophobia creeping in at the descriptions of the city. I was surprised when I reached the end, I wanted more.
    • 4/5
      An awesome journey into the psychology of the manipulators and the manipulated. It may be about an alien species, but the reality of the implications and conjecture on the dangers of overpopulation are frighteningly real.
    • 5/5
      Many themes from Dune show up here, and some are explored more thoroughly. In particular, the notion of a harsh planet creating a superior people is the main focus of this book, while it is simply presented as fact in Dune.I would recommend this to anyone who loves Dune, except for the drawback that it really relies on the reader being familiar with Whipping Star, which is set in the same universe but is a quite different book.
    • 3/5
      This is a complex story that is focused on a blocked off planet, which was theoretically an experiment. In reality the planet provided bodies for beings to transfer into that allowed essentially eternal existence. The story is focused around a lawyer who tries the case of legality of the experiment. This human lawyer has significant insight into the culture and rules of the various sentient species in the story. He uses this knowledge and help from a human Dosadi to save the planet. This was an unusual story focused on law that is quite different than our court system. Since much of the complexity of the story is generated by customs created by the author, I find it too contrived.