I mean it unironically: I always liked Frank Herbert’s Dune. I thought of it as an interesting attempt to put scope and depth into a science fiction epic. I never really got into the sequels, though. Not really sure why. It may very well be because I read them when I was, wow, almost one-third my age.
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Book of the Week: “Dune.”
I suppose that most of my readers who are also science fiction buffs have already read Dune: for the rest of you, it’s… it’s just one of the Books. This one volume alone justifies the title ‘epic:’ a combination of religion, political intrigue, war, and ecology that pretty much blew the minds of every science fiction author that read it. Even the people who hate it now can’t really avoid it: Dune helps define the entire genre.
Plus, it has giant sandworms and people fighting with swords. That always brings in an audience. Continue reading Book of the Week: “Dune.”
With apologies to Herbert and Bonewitz.
The one wrote the original creed for Dune
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the brew of Java that thoughts acquire speed.
The thoughts acquire speed.
The hands acquire shaking.
The shaking becomes a warning.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
Moe Lane
*It’s a gamer thing. You wouldn’t understand.