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zebra2  ·  2212 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My First Reading of Dune

I think there are a lot of characters where it feels like we don't get a chance to fully explore all their interesting aspects and developments. This is especially true in the second book as well. I guess part of the intrigue of a good universe is that you don't pull away the curtain too fast or too completely though.

One of the things I was bummed on about Dune is there seemed to be a big hubbub about some secret reason shields were not used on dune. I must have snoozed on this, because I can not for the life of me think of a satisfying answer to what that secret was.





OftenBen  ·  2212 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Shields attract worms. The frequency they operate at drives them into a rage.

zebra2  ·  2211 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There’s a couple passages where Kynes/fremen talk about how shields attract worms and Paul/Hawat realize they’re being misled about something, but after revisiting the passages, it looks like the lies we’re about another aspect.