ConSentiency Universe · Book 2
The Dosadi Experiment
- Published
- 1 January 1977
- Pages
- 343
- ISBN-13
- 9781250163691
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Dosadi Experiment followed seven years later, in 1977, at nearly double the length at 343 pages, uncovering a generations-long experiment trapping two sentient species on a single overcrowded planet -- widely considered one of Herbert's best novels outside Dune.
Its place in ConSentiency Universe
The Dosadi Experiment is book 2 in the ConSentiency Universe series. It follows Whipping Star. See the full ConSentiency Universe reading order.
Set in a galaxy-spanning bureaucratic federation of sentient species called the ConSentiency, these two novels are linked by their investigator protagonist, Jorj X. McKie, an agent of the Bureau of Sabotage -- an agency whose entire mandate is to deliberately slow down galactic government just enough to keep it from becoming dangerously efficient and tyrannical. Whipping Star (1970) sends McKie to prevent the accidental murder of a sentient star, a being whose death would also kill everyone connected to it across…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250163691