Re:I hope it's better than the BOOKS! (Score 1)

dude, you got the totally wrong idea. Personally, I think that the Herbert series is the best SF series of all time, because of the intricat issues that it deals with. As far as his making hodge-podge worlds, the same could be said of any of the popular authors that you mentioned, especially Pournelle and Niven (Mote in God's Eye, specifically). I personally think that Herbert made an incredibly detailed and working model of the future. But, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. padan