The Dosadi Experiment
In the far future, humans and aliens have joined together in a galaxy-wide federation of intelligent species: The Consentiency, but its existence is now threatened by the discovery of a secret, illegal and deadly experiment on the planet Dosadi. There the froglike Gowachin have created a brutal society: 850 million beings, human and Gowachin, are confined in an area of 40 square kilometres. But the experiment in overcrowding is getting out of control: the beings that have bred on Dosadi are so tough and resourceful that they are capable of breaking out of their monstrous prison and overrunning the galaxy.
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- No control for prosperity. Lifelong comfort insidiously cripples any people on all these levels.
For a fun novel on the very subject, read The Dosadi Experiment.
- Frank Herbert had one of his characters (Jorge McKie, in Herbert's best book "The Dosadi Experiment") say that "Eternal sloppiness is the price of liberty". George Orwell wrote something similar.
How do we reconcile this view with yours?
- “Sapiens” read it twice, wish I could go back in time and give it to 18yr old me.
“The Dosadi Experiment”, probably 5 life-changing concepts just tossed in for flavor.
“A Pattern Language” on how spaces inform life and life informs spaces.
- "A Canticle For Leibowitz"
"The Sparrow"
"Lord of Light"
"The Immortal"
"Hyperion"
"The Last Question"
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
"Stranger in a Strange Land"
"The City and the Stars"
"Childhood's End"
"Anathem"
"Eifelheim"
"A Case of Conscience"
"VALIS" trilogy
"The Book of Strange New Things"
"Behold The Man"
"The God Engines"
"Book of the New Sun"
"The Parable of the Sower"
"The Dosadi Experiment"
"Grass"
"Project Pope"
"Calculating God"
"Factoring Humanity"
"Jesus on Mars"
"Surface Detail
- What's wrong with the Dosadi Experiment?
I remember enjoying reading it and finding the worldbuilding really interesting and the drama kept me reading. But I am a sucker for Frank Herbert so maybe I missed the flaws.
- “Snowcrash” by Stephenson “The Dosadi Experiment” by Herbert
I just read “How to Lose the Time War”. That was good (actually I think I have the name slightly wrong)
Ian M Banks is good. “Use of Weapons” is weaponized fiction. Neil Asher plays in similar waters.
Gibson’s new stuff is good. “The Peripheral” and “Agency” (they turned the peripheral into an Amazon show and that’s quite different but also quite good)
I guess when we’re calling out sci-fi shows based on books we can’t neglect “Altered Carbon”.
