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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Nothing is said about "humanoid robots running things." The Butlerian Jihad occured over ten thousand years before the events of the novel. It isn't exactly something people spend huge amounts of time in their daily lives worrying about. (Except for the religious, I guess.) I'm not sure what you mean by "real answers." Dune is about a power struggle within a very byzantine interstellar society, and by the end of the book this struggle is very neatly resolved. Everything else is background material. Essential in many cases to the plot, but not what the story is about, and thus no time is wasted standing around making it explicit. Who won WWI and how is very important to the events in your average Tom Clancy novel (set as they are in more or less contemporary geopolitical situations, or so I am led to understand), but I can't imagine he devotes much time to the battle of Tannenberg during a book about submarines chasing each other, say. On the other hand, maybe he does. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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