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• W4381948924 abstract "Reviewed by: Discovering Dune: Essays on Frank Herbert's Epic Sagaed. by Dominic J. Nardi and N. Trevor Brierly Kara Kennedy New Tools for a Classic. Dominic J. Nardi and N. Trevor Brierly, eds. Discovering Dune: Essays on Frank Herbert's Epic Saga. McFarland, C riticalE xplorations inS cienceF iction andF antasy, 2022. 274 pp. $49.95 pbk. In their introduction to Discovering Dune, editors Dominic J. Nardi and N. Trevor Brierly clearly articulate one of the key problems with scholarship on Frank Herbert's works, especially the D uneseries: the lack not only of quantity but also of cross-referencing and dialogue among various articles and books. Their essay collection then is an attempt to bring together perspectives [End Page 290]from a range of disciplines and analytical approaches and to make it easier for future sf scholars to build on them. The collection focuses on the original six D unenovels (1965-1985), and although it treads some familiar territory with chapters on philosophical and historical approaches, it still offers new perspectives in these areas as well as fresh takes using game theory, Arab Futurism, disability studies, and other critical angles. Discovering Duneis divided into four parts: Politics and Power; History and Religion; Biology and Ecology; and Philosophy, Choice, and Ethics. It also contains an appendix with a bibliography covering the scholarship that has been published on Herbert's D uneseries. In the first chapter, Duneand the Metanarrative of Power, Edward John Royston brings together previous analyses of power in the D uneseries to argue that the series can be read as a metanarrative about the power of narratives. Royston explores the ways that Duneforegrounds its fictional and narrated nature and how the story and characters also focus on narrative control. He concludes that Paul's cooptation of narratives to secure power shows the dangerous and tragic consequences of trying to control the human story. The chapter adds to the ongoing discussion about Herbert's stated intention to warn readers about the dangers of hero figures. In Chapter Two, Political Prescience: How Game Theory Solves the Paradox of Foreknowledge, Dominic J. Nardi takes a novel approach to the debate regarding the possibility for free will to exist alongside prescience by using game-theory models to analyze the D uneuniverse. Nardi demonstrates how mathematical models that study strategic interactions between people provide a useful way of explaining characters' decision-making in D une. Through his inclusion of specific examples and figures to illustrate his argument, Nardi makes a convincing case that this approach can help reconcile the coexistence of prescience and free will in Herbert's universe. Chapter Three, 'The greatest predator ever known': The Golden Path and Political Philosophy as Ecology centers on the character God Emperor Leto II and his long-term strategy to save humanity by means of the Golden Path. Michael Phillips analyzes Leto II's reign and use of the principles of sociobiology as a driver of the character's political philosophy, which readers know is a key focus of God Emperor of Dune(1981). Phillips draws on theorists Thomas Hobbes, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and Jean-François Lyotard in his exploration of Leto's beliefs and behaviors, pointing out where they converge and differ. With so few close readings of this character, this chapter provides a theoretically rich approach to Leto II as a Leviathan figure with a vision to prevent humans from falling prey to future threats. In Chapter Four, He Who Controls Knowledge Controls the Universe: Leto II and the Golden Path, Caroline Anne Womack also analyzes Leto II but through the lens of Robert Sapolsky's theories on human behavior and Aristotle's view of the tragic hero. Womack argues that the characterization of Leto II aligns with Sapolsky's theory about human nature as unavoidably violent. Womack then explores the symbology of snake-like animals as symbols of evil and how Leto II is set apart as both The Worm and a leader whose time of peace is not one of cultural [End Page 291]advancement or exploration but rather..." @default.
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