Books Similar to Dune

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Here are some books readers have identified as being similar to the Dune
Chronicles with respect to the ideas employed and the emotions evoked by
reading them:



M.A. Foster's Morphodite trilogy: To the totalitarian state of Oerlikon,
change is the most fearsome enemy. So a secret weapon was created to
preserve the status quo-the Morphodite. A bioengineered and
laboratory-raised super assassin, the Morphodite was designed to scent out
and destroy subversive conspiracies. A unique being, it can change its sex,
identity, and even its genetic code as a defense. But its creators did not
foresee that this untraceable, powerful assassin would morph into a true
revolutionary hero-that would turn against the police state that created it.



Mike Resnick's Oracle trilogy: With all of humanity frightened by her
powers of prophecy, and a paid assassin known as the Iceman determined to
kill her, Penelope Bailey hides on an obscure planet.


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Jean Johnson's Theirs Not to Reason Why series: Promoted in the field for
courage and leadership under fire, Ia is now poised to become an officer in
the Space Force Navy-once she undertakes her Academy training. But on a trip
back home to Sanctuary, she finds the heavyworld colony being torn apart by
religious conflict. Now Ia must prepare her family and followers to secure
the galaxy's survival.



David Duncan's The Cursed: The world was desperate. Since the empire had
fallen a hundred years ago, Gwin and her people had nearly given up hope
that the Renewer would come? Gwin had lost everything. Her husband was
killed in one of the wars. Her children died of Star Sickness. Even her work
at the hostel was in jeopardy because the politicians had it out for her.
The cursed Gwin, therefore, had nothing to lose?



The Deathworms of Kratos: Good solid science fiction adventure, certainly,
with a decent plot and excellent imagination.



Sucharitkul's Inquestor series: This was probably one of the most
intriguing authors of science fiction of the 1980's. Anything he wrote
during that time, including this series, along with Mallworld, Starship and
Haiku, was brilliant. The writing is witty, cynical, literate, and bold. The
plots are fantastic and original. It's like Vonnegut on steroids.



Wright's Golden Age series: The Golden Age is 10,000 years in the future in
our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal
humans. Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his
family mansion celebrating the thousand-year anniversary of the High
Transcendence. There he meets an old man who accuses him of being an
imposter, and then a being from Neptune who claims to be an old friend.



L. E. Modesitt's Forever Hero: L. E. Modesitt, Jr's first major work was a
trilogy of SF adventure novels published as paperback originals in the
1980s: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, and In Endless
Twilight. Together they form The Forever Hero. Thousands of years in the
future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in
millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only by a few
degenerate or mutated human outcasts.



Jack Vance's Lyonesse Trilogy: A monument of fantastic literature to stand
beside such classics as Dune and The Lord of the Rings, Lyonesse evokes the
Elder Isles, a land of pre-Arthurian myth now lost beneath the Atlantic,
where powerful sorcerers, aloof faeries, stalwart champions, and nobles
eccentric, magnanimous, and cruel pursue intrigue among their separate
worlds.