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Re: Dune
« Reply #150 on: July 03, 2015, 06:41:44 pm »
It'll never entirely make sense unless you've read Destination: Void.  Ship really is a God of sorts.

(I didn't think Destination: Void was very good, mind you.)
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Re: Dune
« Reply #151 on: July 07, 2015, 07:51:00 pm »
Surely you've seen my posts about the Saberhagen story, Vish...



...But for anyone who hasn't...



Valka!  Talk Dune with me! :)
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Re: Dune
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Re: Dune
« Reply #153 on: July 07, 2015, 09:06:03 pm »
I've read Bored of the Rings, but I don't think I've ever seen that one.  Funny?  Worthwhile?
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Re: Dune
« Reply #154 on: July 07, 2015, 09:18:08 pm »
Quote from: Vishniac on July 03, 2015, 06:36:56 pm
For us SMACers, there is the Brian reynolds bibliography at the end of the booklet where he gives his influences for the game.
The Martian Trilogy, of course, but also Frank Herbert's "The Jesus Incident". I went to the library to pick it up, it's really...fun? Strange? It's like a book about SMAC but not really: worms, drones, punishment sphere... A lot of ideas came from this.
I agree after reading it last fall that many ideas do originate from that particular novel. Also, as I have mentioned before, some concepts in the game are very similiar to objects or themes in Frank Herbert's Hellstrom's Hive. Essentially, the similiarities involve human's living in a insect type of enviroment, genetically engineered workers, and a society living almost completely underground with "security fences."
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Re: Dune
« Reply #155 on: July 07, 2015, 09:46:33 pm »
Herbert doesn't superficially look that way, but he's often very soft science fiction in much more of an Ursula K. LeGuin the-storys-are-about-the-people-not-the-SF sort of way, if not as obviously.  Of course, how exotic conditions inform culture is a very science fictional thing to write about, and if I don't actually believe in the science handwaved or the Planet Arrakis -or Pandora- or the associated superpowers, I do believe in the Imperium and its people...
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Re: Dune
« Reply #156 on: July 07, 2015, 10:32:39 pm »
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Since his death in 1986, his son and another writer have produced a further 13 books.

Holy crap! They're up to 13?!?! /shudder
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Re: Dune
« Reply #157 on: July 07, 2015, 10:36:06 pm »
I'm never going to waste another cent after the first three, so I read all the Wikipedia plot summaries.  Shudder, indeed.

;nod ;nod ;nod ;nod ;nod ;nod ;nod ;nod ;nod ;nod ;nod ;nod ;nod ;nod ;nod ;nod ;nod
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Re: Dune
« Reply #159 on: July 08, 2015, 12:52:02 am »
Then I will read the heck outta that thing should I stumble over a copy. ;b;  Thanks for the recommend.



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Since his death in 1986, his son and another writer have produced a further 13 books.

Holy crap! They're up to 13?!?! /shudder
They called Brian and Kevin J. writers?!?! /shudder
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Re: Dune
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Re: Dune
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Re: Dune
« Reply #162 on: September 01, 2015, 11:35:13 am »
They are water-fat off-worlders, hardly better than Harkonnens; God will not miss them.
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Re: Dune
« Reply #163 on: September 01, 2015, 09:42:59 pm »
I liked the miniseries better than the movie. I'm curious if anyone realizes the movie
is about religion. Specifically the three middle eastern religions.
House Harkonnen are the jews. House Atredies is Christianity and the the Fremen
are the Muslims and Paul is Mohammed.
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http://baheyeldin.com/literature/arabic-and-islamic-themes-in-frank-herberts-dune.html

Theres a lexicon in the link. :)
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