Herbert is such an inspirational writer if you look at the way he wrote things.
Dude went out of his way to make his style as distinct as possible compared to other American Sci Fi writers of that - namely Heinlein, Bradbury and especially Asimov.
So upon conceiving the initial Dune idea he did the funniest thing and adapted the ornate language of Melville, Hardy and James to get the otherworldly feel, then compressed that melange into what are essentially haiku bricks - that’s why his prose is so expansive but brisk. It is literally poetry - written according to poetry methods of conveying imagery - you have a lot of space to let imagination run wild based on his pointers. Double the fun.
Then he poured that into the framework of CS Lewis style of worldbuilding (especially the religious aspects of different factions), bolted on some hard sci fi flourishes in vein of Clarke and Anderson and tied it all together with freewheeling Latin American Magical Realism - namely Marquez, Borges, Asturias.
Herbert is such an inspirational writer if you look at the way he wrote things.
Dude went out of his way to make his style as distinct as possible compared to other American Sci Fi writers of that - namely Heinlein, Bradbury and especially Asimov. So upon conceiving the initial Dune idea he did the funniest thing and adapted the ornate language of Melville, Hardy and James to get the otherworldly feel, then compressed that melange into what are essentially haiku bricks - that’s why his prose is so expansive but brisk. It is literally poetry - written according to poetry methods of conveying imagery - you have a lot of space to let imagination run wild based on his pointers. Double the fun. Then he poured that into the framework of CS Lewis style of worldbuilding (especially the religious aspects of different factions), bolted on some hard sci fi flourishes in vein of Clarke and Anderson and tied it all together with freewheeling Latin American Magical Realism - namely Marquez, Borges, Asturias.