Considering the title I’m guessing this will cover the inception of the Kwisatz Haderach program by the Bene Gesserite. A long term human genome program thousands of years in the making and undermined by the premature birth of Paul when his mother was supposed to have a girl instead.
Maybe but it also shows has humanity has gotten complacent/stagnated which is a key plot point in the later books.
For that you need time for various events such as the guild, the butlerian jihad, etc and then time for everything to be in a kind of equilibrium for millennia
I read Martin McInnes’s In Ascension recently. What I loved about it is that it felt both intimate and sweeping. Intimate in the sense of going deep into the protagonist’s thoughts and feelings; sweeping in the nature of the things she thinks and does. Discovering and investigating things beyond all human knowledge,...
Klara and the Sun. Told completely from the view of an android who strives to understand her world, her place in it, relationships gained, lost and changes.
If you like new non-human perspectives like that one I have a few more suggestions.
I just read Ancillary Justice and I have to say it’s written in a way that truly gives you insight into a new perspective from a not exactly human perspective. An ancillary (human body as an extension of a Ship AI) who is coping with being alone (when she’s used to having hundreds of eyes, tasks, conversations all at once). Dealing with her limitations, feelings and also driven towards a goal decades in the planning.
Finally just funny and short would be the Murderbot Diaries series. A machine/cyborg made to be a soldier or security apparatus… who breaks free and really just wants to watch dramas and be left alone. Touching and funny.
Ink (2009) (an… interesting low budget film that does pull off alot visually speaking). It’s hard hard to explain but the depth/tones, both acoust and visually, of the scenes is used to convey plot elements that become clearer as time goes on.
Metalhead episode of Black Mirror. Not a movie but definitely along the lines of what you’re describing
It’s several seasons in but there are plenty of other battles… but also mystery and intrigue. And like DS9 it deals with a lot more gray area than other sci-fi shows of the time did.
The show has variety and great pacing overall except maybe the miniseries which can be a slow build since they’re so long. Which makes sense since they’re, in essence, a pilot building up for the show.
They’re great too. But man after that the first episode 33 just dives right in.
I love how the number of humanity’s survivors in the show intro updates throughout the show. The detail is a nice touch.
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