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breve ◴[] No.45012636[source]
> Alex Schroeder's Butlerian Jihad

That's Frank Herbert's Butlerian Jihad.

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1. flanbiscuit ◴[] No.45013615[source]
To be fair, he was referring to a post on Alex Schroeder's blog titled with the same name as the term from the Dune books. And that post correctly credits Dune/Herbert. But the post is not about Dune, it's about Spam bots so it's more related to what the original author's post is about.

Speaking of the Butlerian Jihad, Frank Herbert's son (Brian) and another author named Kevin J Anderson co-wrote a few books in the Dune universe and one of them was about the Butlerian Jihad. I read it. It was good, not as good at Frank Herbert's books but I still enjoyed it. One of the authors is not as good as the other because you can kind of tell the writing quality changing per chapter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune:_The_Butlerian_Jihad

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2. renewiltord ◴[] No.45018796[source]
That's really hard to believe. Brian Herbert's stuff seems sort of Fan Fiction In The World of Dune. Nothing wrong with fan fiction: The Last Ringbearer etc. are pretty enjoyable. But BH just follows on. His work has a bit of the feeling of people who lived in the ruins of the roman forum https://x.com/museiincomune/status/1799039086906474572
3. int_19h ◴[] No.45029032[source]
Those books completely misrepresent Frank Herbert's original ideas for Butlerian Jihad. It wasn't supposed to be a literal war against genocidal robots.