/lit/ - Literature

(I am currently reading Messiah, so I would appreciate no spoilers for any Dune book besides the first one)

The first part of Dune (the one that's about the conspiracy to kill Leto) has kind of a weird plot. It introduces a dozen of seemingly important characters that don't end up playing that big of a role in the end, and the story is about this big elaborate secret that the reader is told about from the very beginning, but most of the characters are ignorant about.

I have a hunch that Herbert originally intended this to be a sci-fi whodunnit (like The Caves of Steel) where a clever reader would be able to guess which one of Leto's allies is the traitor. Jessica would have been the main red herring, while Yueh would have been the big reveal. But then Frank decided that "they broke the conditioning through torture" is kind of a dumb twist, and also wanted to give everyone internal monologue, so he scrapped that idea and repurposed the story for what it is now.

I have absolutely no evidence for this, it just seems this way. Am I wrong?

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btw i found it :)