Herbert's Reversal of Asimov's Vision Reassessed: Foundation's Edge and God Emperor of Dune

Grigsby, John L. "Herbert's Reversal of Asimov's Vision Reassessed: Foundation's Edge and God Emperor of Dune." SFS #33, 11.2 (July 1984): 174-80.

Sequel to JLG's "Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and Herbert's Dune Trilogy: A Vision Reversed," SFS #24, 8.2 (July 1981): 149-55. I. Asimov's Foundation's Edge ends with a "universe still controlled and dominated, this time either by robots (and the assumption of technology's importance) or by some vague" Behaviorist control, assuming "the importance of mental science," but with equivocation when Golan Trevise makes provisional his commitment to "Gaia"—see entry for Foundation's Edge, by I. Asimov, under Fiction. "In direct contrast to Foundation's Edge, [F.] Herbert's God Emperor ends with no such equivocation, nor with any such absolute faith in mental science and/or technology" (178).