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The oldest I am aware is the original Dune but look at Herbert's inspiration. I am reading Erewhon right now but so far no POV changes.
I am reading Erewhon right now but so far no POV changes.
After looking it up, it sounds interesting! Haven't read it myself, but the title made me think of Lord of the Rings, which does kind of do something similar, but pretty different at the same time. It's been a while since I read that, though, and my memory of it is pretty fuzzy.
I somehow picked this up looking for books by Butler that inspired Herbert. Not sure if its the right one where the Butlerian Jihad was inspired by but its got pretty good prose. I haven't read anything that does what Dune did, and Dune did it well.
It really did. I have my issues with various things in the Dune series, but Herbert's writing skill is not one of them. It's very impressive and clearly influenced large swaths of modern day writing.
Certainly different parts of the lord of the rings is from different characters perspective but I can't recall how often they shifted and such.
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