Well, "Dune" is a "fantasy fiction" movie.
Posted on 05/11/2025 5:58:56 PM PDT by Red Badger
FFS, Mina. Dune is science fiction. Fiction, as in made-up stuff. It doesn’t claim to be a documentary.
I gave it a small amount of acclaim. I preferred the original. Didn't like the characters in the new one as much as the original.
My god … it’s a sci-fi novel. Next tell us how the Force is not real.
SciFi has never really been, ‘My Thing’ but I did enjoy reading ‘Dune’ back in High School, and all the LOTRs novels, as well. (Oh, Gandalf! Take me away from these IDIOTS I share space with in High School, LOL!)
A few years ago I finally got my Issac Asimov groove on and am now a total fan.
And don’t even get me started on my Ray Bradbury years. SciFi for The Everywo/man.
Really? You don’t think that, ‘The Illustrated Man’ was SciFi? Fight Me! ;)
Currently? I’ve ADORED every book written by Blake Crouch. Treat yourself!
OK. Yeah. I’m now owning that I’m a Geek. ;)
“Next tell us how the Force is not real.”
It isn’t?..................
Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Bradbury, all my faves..................
The author also forgets that the novel is set in the year 10,191. A helluva lot of innovation can happen by that time.
Well, "Dune" is a "fantasy fiction" movie.
I don’t because I never read it or saw any adaptations.
I’ve been thinking lately of just how bad the whole science fiction genre has been.
There is a bit of a dystopian novel you may enjoy called EARTH ABIDES.
I read it about the time I read the authors you mentioned. It has stuck with me for years. It was on our homeschool reading list for all the kids.
It's "the Thread" now.
Good point.
The problem with futuristic science fiction is that future tech cannot be explained because we don’t know about it “yet”. Historically, predictions of what the future looks like are almost always wildly incorrect, because there is no way to know what advancements will occur. If we did, it wouldn’t be science fiction, would it? But as Arthur C Clark famously put it, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. So science fiction writers just come up with magic, and give it a science-sounding explanation.
The time line for Star Trek seems a bit more accurate. Future history there projects that warp drive will be invented about 2062.
To me that seems about right.
But given the pace of AI acceleration —they may shave 20 years off of that.
Talk about overthinking it.
I hope this chick is trapped on a snowed in Greyhound bus with only a copy of Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney to read.
The Foundation Traders had them for personal protection on planets on the frontiers of the crumbling empire...............
Try some Heinlein.
I think you’d enjoy Friday.
Quite the badass, that girl.
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I remember one science fiction writer whose books were based on planets where magic worked—so it was kind of confusing that is was called “science fiction”.
The author did not even attempt to give a scientific explanation for anything—they were just “magic planets”.
Lol.
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