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Book Review: Paul of Dune - Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson
2008-10-14 17:48:00 Hi all… Back in the mid-1980s I read the original Dune novels from Frank Herbert - Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, and God Emperor of Dune. I never got as far as Heretics of Dune or Chapterhouse: Dune. But I was always under the impression that the first book — Dune — was the best. Nothing ...
Le roman "Dune" de Frank Herbert : une adaptation se confirme sur grand écr
2008-03-18 00:00:00 Peter Berg rejoint l'équipe de réalisation du projet de la nouvelle adaptation du roman de Frank Herbert, "DUNE" rapporte le site Variety. Le roman de Frank Herbert avait déjà été adapté au cinéma en 1984 par David Lynch. Ce nouveau projet devrait rester fidèle à l'?uvre originale qui...
By: Eparsa Magazine
The Lure of Power
2008-01-28 23:54:00 We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behavior. Public interest has no practical significance in everyday behavior among the ruling factions. The real problems of our world are no being confronted by those in power. In the guise of public service, they use whatever comes to hand for personal gain. ...
By: (Mis)readings
Dune Extended Edition
2007-10-24 03:04:00 Dune, in my own humble opinion, is one of the best sci-fi classics out there. It strikes you as being pretty strange, but that’s what makes it so enjoyable to view. The critics didn’t like it too much either. I like to watch this at least once a year. I currently have have the old 1984 ...
Frank Herbert?s Dune - Audiobook
2007-10-11 18:30:00 I just finished Frank Herbert’s Dune on audiobook and am completely stoked. It really made the commute back and forth to my new job so tolerable. I saw the old movie made back in 1984 for which I have always been a fan. However, I never read the actual book and now I regret that ...
Biography: The King of Sci-Fi Frank Herbert
2007-07-29 09:41:00 Frank Herbert Jr. (1920-1986) Novelist, essayist and journalist. “The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.â€-Frank Herbert (FH) Frank Herbert Jr. was born 1920 in Tacoma, Washington, USA, only son to Frank Herbert Sr. an auto-bus line operator between Tacoma and Aberdeen. When Frank was eight his family moved to a small farm in Burley, this grounded him in a
By: The IWH Inquirer
Frank Herbert's Dune in Arabic
2007-04-04 23:16:00 I just discovered Bidoun magazine. The latest issue contains an interesting though brief rumination on the lack of sci-fi in the Arab world, what a hearty injection of speculative fiction might do there, and mainly on Dune's easy "allegorical reading as both jihadist wish fulfillment and critique of neocon hubris". Go read it. Dune's central importance at our current historical juncture is twofold. First, it postulates, however implicitly, that in the distant future the only remnants of twentieth-century human life will be Arab in origin: a desert planet, an invaluable natural resource, veiled and fanatical nomads, a prophet known as the Mahdi, an intergalactic jihad. Each object of significance in the Dune universe has its obvious parallel in the Arab Word: spice is oil; the nomads, Bedouins; the intergalactic jihad, jihad. Even the language spoken by the Be-douins of Dune is derived from Arabic. The sand-worms have no immediate analogue in either Arab or Islamic history; they...
By: In-the-Weird
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