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Title: Glaring flaw
Review: I just had to put the book down. In this book, supposedly we see the theoretical work leading to "folding space" take its first steps toward practical application. Yet in this pre-hyperspace setting, everyone seems to be able to zip around the galaxy at will, travelling effortlessly between planents and star systems apparently instantaneously. No explanation for this is ever given, which is the type of glaring plot hole that Frank Herbert would never have allowed. Isn't this supposed to be SCIENCE fiction?Pages and page are devoted to meaningless descriptions of trivial details (such as parties), there is no dialogue to speak of, and the character relationships are murky and hard to follow.The DUNE series was much better when it was simply the 6 original books by Frank Herbert, with the tantalizing and never to be fulfilled hints at the final, seventh novel.Each new addition weakens the original Dune achievement.
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