Reddit reviews The Eyes of Heisenberg

The Godmakers is one of my favourite Frank Herbert books. Without giving too much away, it's set in a future where gods (which seem to be living artefacts of human psi powers) are created as necessary and in one case the process goes out of control, changing the fate of a talented but otherwise-ordinary interstellar scout and first contact specialist.

So is The Eyes of Heisenberg, which is the story of change returning to a world so planned and regimented that there's been no social or political development for a hundred thousand years.