Comparing Galactic Empires: Dune, Hyperion, Foundation
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2019
- In literary science fiction, depictions of galactic empires are common. The trend was kicked off in the 1940s by legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, in his Foundation series. The foundation series focused on the fall of an old galactic empire and the rise of a new one. The foundation books paved the way for other authors to create new fictionalized empires among the stars. In this video, I will be comparing the Galactic Empires, of the Foundation universe, The Dune Universe, from Frank Herbert's series, and the Hyperion Universe, from the science fiction series by Dan Simmons which was published from 1989 to 1997.
Hyperion Playlist: • Hyperion
Dune Playlist: • Dune Lore Explained
Foundation Playlist: • Isaac Asimov
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As a child, discovering sci-fi early (5th grade) in 1957, sci-fi took my mind to places I could not have dreamed possible. My mind expanded with each new story. When I read Dune every fragment of my existence was already traveling the stars. Dune drove me even further to a point where Earth was a distant memory. These feelings helped me see the continuity of the past and the possibilities of the future for mankind. As I got older I was saddened by the realities of life and the lack of vision I saw everywhere. Seeing mankind squander its potential renders my heart but I grasp hope today as I see men breaking the bonds of greed and envisioning a place for man in the stars. We need to reignite man's pioneering spirit and willingly embrace the future hardships this will expose us to so we can continue our journey. Thank you for the time you spend and your creativity on RUclips.
combined with staring at maps of stars and planets :P I loved astronomy class
Future's cancelled old man
@farenheit041
I think Larry Niven's story, The Locusts, might appeal to you.
@farenheit041 Look at you, you big internet tough guy, wielding the pen with such consumate cynicism. You really showed him, kid.
You sound like the kind of fellow who'd complain about anything and drag anyone bright-eyed down into the mud rather than consider the possibility of actually doing something. You've seen it all, thought it all through, and really, there's not much point into doing anything, is there.
Were not going into space and colonize new world's. The End of Times are upon us. The last days of mankind will fight for the last of the resources on Earth and the final battle called Armageddon will be fought in the Holy Land of Israel. Get Right with the Lord while you still can?
I would be pleased to see something about the Culture from Iain M. Banks.
That was going to be my post, well played sir!
I was thinking exactly the same thing. But the Culture is very different series of books from Dune and Foundation. In many ways the antithesis of Dune. Also with a much more British sense of humour.
Maybe The Algebraist would be closer to the Dune.
hyperion barely has a universe. its all opera mysticism it felt like to me. i did like the hyperion series. cant read foundation series. the really old ones just sound retarded. dune is also too old and boring. only the culture for me. sadly i will be dead before we get another banks. he was a once in a hundred year author
I found the first part of the culture series really silly, almost in a 3 stooges way. I couldn't read further but I have read some banks and short stories in the universe so maybe I'll give it another try. Hyperion is the only book that compares to the greatness of Dune to me and as well as many other people.
I have sought their equal for decades now.
@@countfloydschillerhorrorth2090 We all have a different view of a good read. The Culture novels are in many ways over the top but this is a deliberate thing. It is Ian Banks basically taking the mickey out of science fiction but not in a horrible, I don't like science fiction way more with a wink and a smile.
Hyperion was a trip. I still get the mental image of a husband and wife sitting in different rooms who look over at each other as their portals disconnect and they never see each other again. And falling through an unending sky for days. It was a fascinating series.
Dune was great, but I kinda hit a point where it started feeling like "Paul is the chosen one! No wait, Leto is the chosen one! No wait, Siona is the chosen one!" I love the Dune miniseries though.
And Asimov is just fantastic. His robot books are beautifully written and ask the reader what it truly means to be human by seeing humanity reflected in robots. Bailey and Daneel were wonderful partners and friends. But the universe building that Asimov does is incredible. He starts basically in a 1950's style earth and expands that out into a galactic empire which crumbles under its own weight and just stagnant bureaucracy. (remind you of anything?)
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@@user-cs4su3ng9l That too, but I was meaning what the U.S. is currently doing.
I still immediately recall people having an office or bedroom in a hospitable place being instantly cut off with no food no exit and no hope of living beyond the resources in the room .
Yes I remember that in Hyperion. Utterly heartbreaking. I think the husband and wife can still see each other through the portals but are not able to pass through them, if I remember correctly. Which is somehow even worse...
@@wasfuerkeksigkeit I thought the portals just vanished. That the portal technology was turned off and that they basically had to learn how to portal themselves as a latent ability. I dunno, it has been about 7yrs since I read them.
Dan Simmons on every level from the character arcs to how his universe worked did such a great job of establishing the "rules" and then shattering the rules without cheating. Brawne befriending Martin stands out. FORCE losing to the surprise "Ouster" overwhelming invasion but one small task force bravely sacrifices and discovers the real enemy and saving untold BILLIONS from slavery. And don't even get me started on Endymion and how horrifying Nemes was.
I never finished the Foundation series so I'm listening to them from the beginning now. Pretty sure I'm buying all these series for myself for Christmas LOLOL!
I’m in the same boat. I should do the audio books too... loved Dune and Hyperion though...
I could never finish it either.
after that try the three police novels (there are connectionnsssss). hehe it was great. good readings:)
@@JoaoSantos-lv4rc Will do!
And I on the other hand read the entire Foundation series several times lol. Most recently in 2017 after a 25 year gap from the time before that. If you're a sci-if fan I think you'll enjoy it though both Asimov's and Herbert's works are dated considering how very far technology has come and how much our knowledge of the universe has expanded when they wrote them.
I'm so happy there are more SciFi shows coming out, it's always been a genre that's captivated me.
I truly appreciate your ability to discuss in depth details of a given book without dropping spoilers everywhere. Keep it up!
That what I came to add to comments.
I don't know about the other novels but Dune sounds like it's more like the Holy Roman Empire instead of the original Roman Empire and how it operates.
The Holy Roman Empire had different states and houses and principalities (mostly being German) in it as well as the emperor.
Gang Weeder Yes you’re absolutely right, and it galls me to no end when people don’t realize this. (Quinn does though as he points out that the Duniverse begins politically “medieval” and then moves to a theocratic empire.)
@@nathanielgoldberg2891
If you want more "Roman" SF (based on the I Claudius books)
Check out A.E van Vogt's, Empire of The Atom.
dune was more based on world history than european houses and such takes inspiration from all civilizations especially middle east. Tolkien however takes a lot of inspiration from almost completely european history. Herbert was inspired by his religion and then dove into all religions and its behaviour eventually fell in love with the desert in a way like lawrence of arabia. Also him being a geologist contributed to his love for middle east because of the influence geography has on middle east
@@nadheem420 'especially" only for arrakis
we need more Hyperion vids
I am fascinated by the Hyperion Cantos. I need more of it!
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How about stellar empires? I had a scifi universe concept where Interstellar travel was still exceptionally slow and expensive, but civilisation was spread between mainly 3 bodies in a single stellar system, an Earth like planet, a closer to the sun desert planet where people can only survive at the watery poles, and an island covered moon orbiting a gas giant with huge tides and a cold, stormy climate.
Sounds fascinating. It sucks no one replied to your comment. Did you even continue to develop this concept/story? I wanted to ask something about it.
@@Rebel8MAC I've thought a bit about it, but done nothing major with it. What did you want to know?
@@DysnomiaFilms i just watched another of quinns ideas videos that talked about why galactic empires fail and it talked about the challenges they face and my question to you was how were they able to spread across the 3 bodies if their travel speed is exceptionally slow? The traveling to those bodies to spread out would take like many generations of human lives. So i was going to ask those questions because i was thinking ohhh he said civilization so it could be some other non human civ. They could have spread using wormholes that weren't their own. That was it really. Thanks!
@@Rebel8MAC I thought about making it an independently evolved race of humanoids but I eventually decided it'd be more interesting if they were all descended from a human ark that was travelling for centuries with people in cryosleep, but with a lot of advanced tech being lost when they landed and they sort of have to develop technology from a more simplistic state again.
Your narratives are so great. Have you ever considered audiobooks reading?
Agreed, I could listen to this guy read the phonebook! Just stubled upon his channel.
**all three series have really good narrations:)) (especially Hyperion). that's all i wanted to say. no one ever gets on this bandwagon with me
Yeah, you could narrate anything! Your voice and narration skills are awesome!
I second this
@@deven6518 shut up waman
So glad you included Hyperion, those books aren't appreciated nearly enough. Such a wonderful, complex world and such beautiful prose by Simmons.
Aw, yes. The Foundation Series... One of the first Sci-fi series I fell in love with. It set me on a multi decade love of reading.
I love Asimov's Foundation and Earth series. I read them in chronological order of storyline. All the way back to The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn. Elijah Baley and his friend the robot R. Daneel Olivaw. Such a beautiful series.
OK, now I need to re-buy the Hyperion and Foundation books to read them again, it's been like 24 years since I finished them...
Great overview! I was captivated by Dune in the 80s, in seventh grade. I loved the tricks he used to bring a super futuristic society back to feudalism and knife fighting.
Already highly familiar with Asimov. I actually prefer his short stories to his mega novels.
Now...off to explore Hyperion!
Thanks!!!
Jack Coleman I love Asimov's nonfiction works even more.
My understanding is that the guild navigators we're not genetically modified, but instead spice modified.
Sascha Marlow
Genetically modified not by design but by spending so much time in deep space exposed to its radiation.
But Herbert's ideas about The Navigators changed over time.
@@alanpennie8013 I don't think it was the deep space radiation, they are floating in a tank of pure gas melange.
@@Bummerman81
I would guess it's a combination of these two things.
How about doing a piece on Larry Niven's "Tales of Known Space" universe.
I would suggest comparing these to Brin's Uplift series. In Uplift the Galactic Empire is billions of years old, spans multiple galaxies and countless alien races. Humans are considered a new and trifling mystery, an annoyance to only a few of the established polities.
I second Douglas Dea’s recommendation of David Brins Uplift series!
Warhammer Empire is interesting, but Stellaris offers a large variety of Galactic Empires to play with.
There is a form of Time Travel in Asimov's work. The standalone book "The End of Eternity" is based around Time manipulation of Humanity by The Eternals. It is referenced (possibly by R. Daneel Olivaw) as being a Myth or Legend. The Eternals ultimately abandoning their plan because it prevented the creation of a Galactic Empire which it was realised was needed as a defence by Humanity.
Ian Armstrong it was more of a retcon written in one of his latest novels and the Eternals didn't abandon it more it was the protagonist conspired with his partner to bring down Eternity.
Asimov's Pebble in the sky, set in the early days of the Empire, presents a XX century man sent into the future in a freak accident
You should check out The Legend of the Galactic Heroes, I think it'd be right up your alley.
The anime series is even more amazing.
As much as I love Babylon 5, Deep Space Nine and The Next Generation (among other great sci-fi shows), I would honestly argue that the classic Legend of the Galactic Heroes anime is the best sci-fi show of all time.
@@Bobbyismetal
It is definitely a contender.
Also Nighteyes and Fitz are contenders for best SFF characters ever.
Got done watching this last month. it was quite a journey. Excellent stuff.
By no means a universe building novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr covers a similar devolution and rebirth of civilization as in The Foundation series, but in a much simplified way dividing in 3 parts spanning centuries. It's a classic and one of my favorites.
I would love to see Quinn do a video (or three) on Canticle...
@@dgthall
Thinking about it I realise that it's like Man in The High Castle in being haunted by the fear of nuclear war but it's ultimately more pessimistic.
Love Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ series. The ‘Mule’ was one of the greatest antagonist characters ever created! I would love to see your thoughts on Asimov’s ‘Caves Of Steel’ series and Larry Niven’s ‘Ringworld’ series!
...And during this last week I picked up the Folio Society's edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It's gorgeous.
I read that edition. They are indeed beautiful volumes - almost like a set of encyclopaedias.
Yes, beautifully written it is.
@@johneyton5452
The footnotes are a particular joy.
Is it a difficult read?
@@dontchastop
Some people (not me) find his style mannered and irritating. Browse a little before you commit to reading Gibbon. I would recommend checking out chapter 15, his famous account of the Early Church and the rise of Christianity, as an entry point.
God dam I love this channel .
As a huge science fiction fan, I think we need more channels like this! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for introducing me to the Hyperion books through your video on the Shrike! I had never heard of them but thanks to you, I bought the first one and devoured them in days!
x 2. Thank you Quinn. I have just finished the second Hyperion novel and I have read all 6 Frank Herbert's Dune novels previously. I've always considered Dune scifi's gold standard, but after reading Hyperion I must say the podium must be shared. In some regards Hyperion might actually be superior to Dune: less preachy, better paced. Btw, I'd recommend The Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny to anyone who likes novels rich in ideas/philosophy like Dune and Hyperion. Lord of Light packs a LOT of great thought provoking ideas in less than 300 pages.
If you like the Hyperion books, check out Simmons' Ilium/Olympos series, they are amazing in their breadth and depth.
How was the taste eh?
Dude, you've got to check out Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur's channel. You'd love it, maybe.
John Michael Godier/Event Horizon is another one worth checking.
@@ministryoftruth8499 good tip. Thanks.
I just can't suffer that speech impediment. He's obviously the inspiration for Kripkie on BBT.
His intelligence and ideas are worth the impediment for me hands down
I love that channel!!
It's worth noting that while the Foundation universe may be deterministic, it still isn't fully predictable. What with certain events transpiring in the second part of the initial trilogy.
Yeah, it's only really predictable for absolutely massive numbers of people, like a galactic empire. For individuals it isn't. Hence the disruption of the Mule.
Dan Simmons was a master storyteller, weaving compelling narratives across science fiction, horror, fantasy, and historical fiction. His work was characterized by rich prose, complex characters, and thought-provoking themes. A true visionary, his work will inspire and entertain readers for generations.
Simmons died in 2021, leaving a legacy of beloved science fiction and horror novels. His work explores complex themes such as faith, mortality, and the nature of reality, using the tools of the future to hold up a mirror to our own world and show us ourselves in a new light.
Simmons's work is a testament to the power of storytelling to challenge us to think about the world in new ways.
*LOVE FROM INDIA*
I enjoyed Asimov's books about 40 years ago when they were already a bit retro and it's so great to see others still getting the same joy from them today.
Seeing Foundation on video has been a lifelong dream. Who would play Daneel and the Mule?
Keanu Reeves would play the Mule.
Apple TV is releasing a new series based on Asimov's Foundation series this year!
There was some mention about Galactic Empires encountering resistance and it made me think of the Brown Coats in the tv show Firefly. Also, in Firefly, Earth is not forgotten but likely destroyed or uninhabitable. Great content as always!
Firefly is set in only one solar system that has dozen of planet and moon that in habitable zone in that system
They explaind that in the movie
Glad you mentioned 40K as a game compared to these settings but the horus hersey book series shouldn't be looked over. It's an epic collection, I'd suggest start with "thousand sons" It's such a good introduction to the start of the heresy
40k is Dune meets Tolkien by way of early Michael Moorecock.
Starting the heresy novels on Thousand Sons is not a good idea. There are far too many references that one wouldn't pick up on. It's always best to start with the first 3 books in the heresy and then pick and choose according to what legion suits you.
We all have been waiting for you to do this since we subscribed. Many thanks!
After reading Hyperion in 1990 I began to devour Dan Simmom"s other novels and short story anthologies. Since then he remains my favorite author. My favorite novel of his is 'Carrion Comfort.' It's the only novel of his that I've read twice. The idea that certain people are 'mind vampires' that can easily slip into people's consciousness, take over their bodies and use them as puppets to perpetrate vile and reprehensible deeds and then vacate them so that they take the blame or leave them as empty, mindless shells is truly horrifying.
Dude. Your backround looks epic. Thanks for the vid!
Quinn, I'm not a big RUclips user, but I thoroughly enjoy and look forward to your videos so much. I have been watching them for the last year and they have really reignited my interest in reading and writing stories.
I'm sorry but I can't help but make a big deal over how much I did not know and how great it is that I follow your channel. Thank You!
Hamilton, Reynolds and Banks (all hail Banks !) have created nice sci-fi universes that could interest you ! TY for your vids, fellow scifi lover !
Ahhhhh yes, Hamilton 😊
I started Hyperion. Thank you for talking about this one!
I just want to say a big thank you for making these videos. It not only encouraged me to start reading the books, but also to appreciate the research, complexity and meaning of the books. I can't wait to see you do other epochs of science fiction/fantasy in the future!
Your videos have gotten me to read several new books and look at previous ones I've read in a new light. Thanks!
I'm glad i've found your channel. Greetings from Poland.
Your face when you’re showing off the books 😂😂😩
So proud, so happy. You can tell he really loves these books. :)
Fully agreed. That is the visual equivalent of squee if ever I've seen one :) Well done, sir.
Excellent synopsis of important science fiction tropes. Keep up the great work.
MOst excellent mini-lecture comparing these marvelous stories. Thank you. 👍
Holy crap, caught ya right on upload 😁 just wanted to say gday from down under, love your videos, love that SWEET hat too hehe hope you just keep doin' what you do man, top bloke 💪💪
I dont have my hyperion books here but i thought it was the FATline, not FLATline.
It is Fatline
This is by far the best science fiction channel. Keep it up! Please add more vids in Hyperion. I love dune and foundation but haven't read Hyperion yet. Now I will!!
Wow ... One of the finest explanations. Thanks for such a work.
I enjoy the way you presented the actual books you were talking about, makes it feels more personal than a simple still image. Also the aesthetics of your room (and, not to be weird, but your clothes too) are some of the best I've ever seen; and it's always good to see more of that. Well done, and keep up the good work 👍
I personally would LOVE to see more videos from you that focus on the world and stories of Hyperion.
Agreed, and I really REALLY love to see videos on Simmons' Ilium/Olympos series, they have SO much packed into them...
Dude! I love seeing your face in videos now, makes me connect more with that love we both have for these universes!
Your videos are fantastic! Love your insights, explanations, and commentaries.
Wouldn't the first galactic empire in science fiction be the ones in the "Lens Men" series written by EE Doc Smith from the 1930"s?
@@littlemrpinkness295 Yeah, there were several other galactic empires that preceded or were contemporary with Asimov's Foundation. That's why everyone easily understood the fall of the Empire predicted by psychohistory, along with it drawing from the historic Roman Empire. Poul Anderson's PolesoTechnic League probably better know now as the Technic Civilization tracked trading empires roughly based on the mercantile empires of old Europe as they expand, destabilize, then form an empire, face external threats and then decay due to a decline into decadence. This contains the excellent Dominic Flandry novels that trace the career of a singularly effective intelligence officer. Highly recommended!
Although some dismiss the Flandry novels as being imitative of James Bond, his character actually preceded the publication of the first of those books by Ian Fleming.
@@littlemrpinkness295 heyy
@@littlemrpinkness295 you old?
That cover for Foundation that you show on your tablet about 30 seconds or so into the video looks like it could've been the inspiration for the cover that was going to be used for Jodorowsky's Dune.
Amazing and well thought out video up to the usual high level of standard.
Thank You and Keep Up The Great Work !!
That was excellent! I have a lot of good memories digesting those series. Thanks for bringing em back!
Also, Mentat projections (much like psychohistory) can be seen as a slightly less precise version of prescience. Hence, Mentats would be the best psychohistorians, in a Dune-Foundation crossover.
I can recommend the Lensman series by E. E. Smith. Older than Foundation, and a lot of giddy fun.
Start with Triplanetary if you want to begin by finding out what's going on, but it's a relatively weak book.
Start with Galactic Patrol if you want what's going on to be gradually revealed.
TOTALLY! My first trip into space was with E.E. Doc Smith. Two of my children are named after the triplets.
@@BuckTravis Triplets? Kimball and Clarissa Kinnison had 5 children. The oldest was a son, Kit, followed by twin girls, Karen and Kathryn, and the another set of twins, Camilla and Constance. Who had triplets?
Love your videos! I've been a fan of Dune for a while and that's how I found your channel, then recently I had two friends recommend Hyperion and Foundation, so this was perfect timing for me to find this!
Your videos are all very well thought through and presented incredibly well. Thank you very much for your videos they are very entertaining.
Great video as always! Have you perhaps read the series of books by Peter F. Hamilton referred to as the Commonwealth Saga? Hamilton comes up with new universes from time to time but several books of his are set in this Commonwealth universe (Pandora's Star, Judas Unchained, and the Void trilogy). Based on what you like, the series would be right up your alley. For me they are on the level of Hyperion and Dune (especially the 3 Void novels).
Guys...Can you imagine a show that mixed those books to fit the same story? Twenty seasons.... But... Crazy!!!
Wonderful review of these 3 majors.
Thanks
You have a great channel. Keep the content coming.
The Bobiverse Series is relatively new, but I think they're a fun and unique take on humans colonizing other worlds.
You may be interested in these novels if your searching for something new.
I really enjoyed Peter F. Hamilton's "Night's Dawn" trilogy, and I recommend it to anyone who likes the galactic epics in this vid.
It is only set 600 years in our future, but hundreds of star systems are settled under 'the Confederation'.
It has an interesting mix with the horror genre, but I especially liked its complex and realistic world building, where our species is beginning to diverge somewhat due to 'bitek' being utilised comprehensively by a portion of humanity but not by the majority.
I hope that this channel covers this series one day.
Your style as a RUclipsr is so dapper :D Love the structure for the videos and the depth of the content. Great job really, keep up with the good work! ^^
Thank you for your Channel, and covering three of my Favorite sci-fi series and authors... Great Work..
I've read a lot of harder core Sci-fi (...Greg Bear, Larry Niven... etc..) but I loved the Hyperion series. My one criticism is that the first "vignette" (it's structured like the The Canterbury Tales) should not have been - The Priest's Tale - . It's a bit of a tough read. It's revelations would have been better suited later in the narative. However, The - Soldier's Tale -... - The Poet's Tale - …. - The Detective's Tale - are awesome. Oddly, my favorite is The Consul's Tale: "Remembering Siri". That one kicked me in the emotional guts a bit.
Three of my favourite series! Well, only the first few books of the Dune series, but other than that :)Other cool SF empires:Commonwealth Saga (Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained/etc) (Peter F. Hamilton)Saga of the Seven Suns - several empires actually, the most intriguing is the extinct(?) Klikiss (Kevin J. Anderson)Known Space (Larry Niven)Gateway Empire (Frederik Pohl)And of course the Berserker Empire (Fred Saberhagen) - more of an anti-empire since they are trying to destroy all life :)
Try strugatsky Noon-verse
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL SO MUCH. Love and respect
I have to say Mr. IdeasOfIceAndFire, your energy and passion are infectious! (in a good way)
Not really familiar with _Hyperion,_ but for a decade now I've been on the lookout for the third leg that will form a trinity with _Foundation_ and _Dune._ I thought it might be the Lensman series, but while that one is entertaining, it does not measure up.
You should check it out. It's absolutely brilliant! I put The Hyperion Cantos just below Dune Saga and The Book of the New Sun.
I'd say check out Hyperion. It's definitely that third leg...
Foundation is the quintessential space opera of the golden age of science fiction in the 40s-50s
Dune is the quintessential new wave space opera of the 60s-70s
Hyperion is quintessential cyberpunk space opera of the 80s and 90s
Small correction - the greatest warriors in the Dune Saga were the Ginaz Swordmasters, not the Sardaukar.
Yeah, but there are not so very many left after that a academy massacre.
Gustav Ramirez
He didn't say they were. That they aren't is established fairly quickly.
He said they were reputed to be.
Very nice exposition of the three series. Great channel.
Very happy that you're getting into other series, especially scifi. Keep it up!
This is my fav scifi nerd book channel 👌💗🤙
Ditto!
I just have to catch up on Hyperion. I only started reading the first book and quit halfway through for some reason. I you say it's that good, I trust you and it's worthwhile.
I love your commentary. Thanks for putting out interesting and amazing vids.
Love your enthusiasm. Keep up your work.
I’d kinda like you to do Iain M. Banks’ Culture books
You should look at the Peter Hamilton works like the Commonwealth series.
Misspent Youth is not great. Technically a story in the same universe, it's a one off in its own right, detailing the birth of Rejuvenation technology. It throws up all that is bad in Hamilton.
However there are two later series in the same universe as well, the Void trilogy, and another duology, The Abyss Beyond Dreams, and Night without Stars.
It's always nice to see the face behind the voice. Thanks for the videos!
I love this channel so much. Thanks for all you do!
Bring it on. I love dune and foundation. Dune is my fav... Never read the hyperion series tho
Man is Hyperion good. Head and shoulder above the others for me. I've read Dune completely and the beginning of foundation. I've read the Hyperion books twice and listened to them in audiobook twice.
@@halneufmille highly recommend then, I will check them out
The Gundam anime series is one of my favorite Galactic empires.
Awesome video dude! My 3 favorite sci fi series.
Great content as usual Quinn!! Thank you
Can you cover the Imperium of Man from warhammer 40k
I’d love a video on this as well
I’d say leave 40k out of it because the source material is too much and too diverse. Also, there are plenty of 40k channels out there. This channel, I think, is more about the literature itself: the sets and hard cover volumes sitting on our shelves and not the board games, comics, video games, rule books, novels etc....
@@ng8tvinfluence78 Do you ever heard of the Horus Heresy ? 10 Great, awesome Books.
TheBlackfall234 I know the story but don’t have those books. I’ve got other 40k books, though. I like 40k, but the empires in this video are driven by the original source material (the books) and they fit a certain style of story telling. 40k doesn’t fit that style due to the constant new material by different authors. IMO, Dune is to sci-fi what LotR is to fantasy. Comparing 40k to Frank Herbert is like comparing Dungeons & Dragons to Tolkien. They share themes but have completely different execution.
@@ng8tvinfluence78 Nah I don't like your advice. I'd say get into 40k if you're willing to put the time it takes to learn about it. Sure it's really diverse but there's no such thing as "too diverse". All that matters is how much one personally enjoys the lore and usually that will dictate how much time one is willing to spend on it.
Hey man what do you think of Warhammer 40k? It's got elements from Dune like Navigators and a God Emperor but more... grimdark. If you haven't a 40k book may I reccomend Horus Rising, The First Heretic, or Eisenhorn Xenos?
*_The Emperor Protects_*
@@OneInTheRiver Indeed he does.
Warhammer is the worst thing on planet earth
Warhammer is the laziest and cheapest lore in existence. It's fundamentally boring since it exists to support a board game and thus, no faction nor major hero will disappear forever. This means there is no narrative progression.
Plus, Warhammer just steals its lore from others such as Dune. I know other franchises like Star Wars etc have clearly stolen or been inspired by books such as Dune but Warhammer takes it too far.
@@kingkusnacht Where did 40k steal the lore for the creation of Space Marines then?
Dude your channel is Gold.
Thanks a lot
Wow! So informative! You have convinced me to look into a series I never would have come across sir! Thanks!!
Given you're a ASOIAF centric channel, have you read The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie? If not, you should!
Amazing books, great fun
Please review five star stories by Mamoru Nagano.
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Awesome analysis. I'm currently rereading the Hyperion Cantos. Remembering how great they are and thought provoking. It helps to hear interpretations and connections with other authors and works, to gain a deeper understanding of the literature. Thanks!