Donald E. Palumbo. Chaos Theory, Asimov's Foundations and Robots, and Herbert's Dune: the Fractal Aesthetic of Epic Science Fiction.(Book Review) From: Utopian Studies | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Society for Utopian Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. xi + 240 pp. $67.95.

DON'T BE PUT OFF by the catchy title of this book. Dr. Palumbo has produced a volume which is itself a trilogy of sorts, composed of three parts, each with three chapters. The irony (or self-similarity) of this structure was not lost on me because one of the topics of the book is the "trilogies-within-trilogies" structure found in Isaac Asimov's Robot and Foundation novels and also in the Dune books of Frank Herbert. Such a structure--form mirroring content--can be likened to the structure of fractals and the spiraling ...

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