Posted on 05/11/2025 5:58:56 PM PDT by Red Badger
There are more books in the series than just ‘Dune’................
Blish.................
That’s right đź‘Ť
Dune has way more problems than not jibing with reality. It’s the parallel of the Islamic religion. That is the thing I most object to. Th at and the girl at the end of part two riding off on a worm. Only men ride worms in the world of Dune. Plus it’s that girl who is named Zendaya who is in everything. I didn’t really like her as Mary Jane Watson.
Exactly.
In contrast, soft science fiction takes a more speculative leap to stories with technology, science, and life forms that are beyond or contradict contemporary science. The result is a tendency toward wilder and more inventive story-telling that is nevertheless constrained and animated by the terms of an imagined world with scientific and technological constraints of its own.
"Dune" is unusual in combining diplomatic, political, tribal, and military conflicts involving a dry, sandy planet that is barely hospitable to human life. The narrative structure combines first person monologues within a third person narrative. The result in both written and movie forms is a high demand on the understanding of readers and audiences. The reward is an exploration of human nature in extreme and imaginative circumstances.
I once heard a radio interview with Frank Herbert, the author of Dune. A caller described how the book had saved her life after a criminal attack had left her badly wounded, bleeding, in extreme pain, and dying. In distress, the caller recalled the saying from Dune that "fear is the mind killer," put aside her fear of death, and thought through and carried out a plan that got help and saved her life.
In the end, the point of hard and soft science fiction is always to illuminate human nature and inspire us in some fashion. Genre fiction it may be, but it sometimes tells us a great deal about ourselves.
That's a shortage.
The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park has a capacity of more than 1 billion US gallons.
If that was all the available / accessible water on Earth (even if we had a population of only, say, 50 million)...
Regards,
I have always enjoyed SF, but i consider both stories of Dune to be, what’s the word?, stupid!
It is dated...
But so is Jane Eyre snd Little House on the Prarie.
Teaching how people thought and acted in history is important.
I reread it recently. It holds.
Surprisingly reread the foundation trilogy recently and it didn’t hold for me.
HOMESCHOOL DYSTOPISN READING SERIES 8 thru 12th
LORD OF THE FLIES
ANIMAL FARM
1984
BRAVE NEW WORLD
EARTH ABIDES
And
Slavomir Rawicz
The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom
I will try to find that. I did not know.
His book gave my spouse and me some interesting conversations around the woodstove 50 years ago
Should have used the force.
Has no idea that this existed.
Do I watch someone’s adaptation of a novel that helped form me?
Little Women raised me. I have never been able to watch the film adaptations.
I second your comment. Furthermore, in many examples, she says it's not possible with present technology. To that I say.... DUH
Correct. At that point you can just create your own atoms and assemble the molecules right up to their useful macro forms at that point. Like the replicators on Star Trek Next Generation, but not like the replicators on Stargate 1 (those ones are jerks).
He has several other books too! Did not know. Thanks!
Thank you.
That helps explain books in my life
Not true. Every Fremen, male or female, can summon worms and ride them as far as the worm can go until it tires out. Every Fremen is a fighter, from the age of two and up...........................
Being Sci-Fi fiction aside, I was totally triggered that a civilization that had figured out how to use anti-gravity technology for their ore haulers would decide to use the massively clumsy and inefficient ornithopters for personal transportation. Dumb ...
I too preferred the first version.
It was stored in order to keep it away from the worms to which it was a deadly poison, and the worm’s juvenile form, ‘sand trout’, which would attempt to encase the water with their own bodies and seal it off. The Fremen used predatory fish, like piranhas, to kill the sand trout. Fremen children would hunt sand trout for fun, and add their water to the tribes horde.
Dune was once a lush tropical planet with oceans, lakes and rivers, before the introduction of the Sand Worms from another planet................
Yes. He’s really interesting.
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