Dune Series: "What if the hegelian synthesis of social darwinism and eugenic breeding programs was a big worm boy and everyone was horny for a guy named duncan idaho"
Vorkosigan Series: "What if the hegelian synthesis of luxury gay space communism and regency novel england was a fucked up little dude who decided to run away from home to become a space mercenary and spy during a cold war against a society that is the embodiment of both imperialism and eugenics, then came home in disgrace only to become a supreme court judge, oh, and also his evil clone reconciled gay space communism with space anarcho-capitalism and founded a commercial empire based on eating weird shit excreted by superbugs"
you can have more fun with your space operas than frank herbert did, is what I'm saying