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This is the 1st volume in a 3 volume set anthology of short science fiction stories. The Main reason I did not give it 5 stars is that some of the stories were just meh, ok vs stories I feel really deserve at hall of fame entry

That being said the 3 best stories in this book imho would be

1) Nightfall my Issac Asimov explores the question of how does a society deal with things complete alien to them, when a planet with multiple suns and 24/7 daylight, has a total eclipse plunging the world into total darkness, this happens only once every 2000 yrs. I love the concept of this story

2) Flowers for Algernon was great story about how society treats those different from us and what happens when we try to change the inherent nature of the individual. A man of low intellegence and mental capacity undergoes new treatment to enhance intellgence and the resulting new world he now has access to and resulting decline

and the 3rd story is

3) The Cold equations asks the reader to consider a moral and ethical dilmena. A young girl sto -away on a ship delivering life saving supplies to a colony on another world. Because of the added weight of this unexpected passenger the ship does not have enough fuel to deliver the supplies condeming the colonist to certain death, the law says stoaways must be spaced due to this reality, how does one choose to deliberalty send a young person to their death and look them in the eye as they do so vs saving colonist they have never met?

All in all however this is a good collection of scifi stories and a really enjoyable read

Of the schools of Dune books this I think is my fav, that being said its been a while since I read sisterhood of Dune

While this book does focus on the Mentats of dune, kind of there is alot of stuff going on around mentats in general. The spice trade, sisterhood and empire and the butlerian movement lead by halfmand torondo

If you are a Dune fan, then you already know how Gilbertus Albans the founder of the mentat school is. He is trying to balance by relgious fanatics on one side and anti relgious fanatatics on the other and how these 2 groups vying for power affect the mentat school

I have always been a fan of political games, treachory and fanatical extremisn in story telling and I felt that this book portrayed that well, not every aspect of the overall plot was needed in this book imho, paticularly around the freement recrutis of venkee enterprises, I feel like that could have been just something in the background rather than creating a narrative plot around the story

overall however a good read and decent edition to the dune universe

I love this book. Andy weir has a way of combing humor with life and death and hard scifi. this book had me laughing at so many places i maybe should not have been laughing at, and realyl in situations i would be terrified to find myself in perosnally

What happens when you combine star eating microscopic life with aliens and the eventual death of humanity, well this book is that story and was a fantastic read and highly recommended