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The World of “A Song of Ice and Fire”

by storiesbywilliams on December 6, 2012 in Authors, Books, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged a song of ice and fire, ancient greece, ancient rome, antiquity, arrakeen, arrakis, astapor, baron harkonnen, caladan, casterly rock, conspiracy theories, dothraki, Dune, emperor shaddam IV, essos, fedeykin, Frank Herbert, geidi prime, George RR Martin, gondor, hadrians wall, hobbits, ilyrio, J RR Tolkien, kings landing, lannisters, Lord of the Rings, mereen, middle earth, minas tirith, Paul Atreides, qarth, sardukar, seitch tabr, selusa secundus, slavers bay, sothoryos, the atreides, the fremen, the harkonnens, the king in the north, the reach, the shield wall, the shire, vaes dothrak, westeros, yunkai

After reading four of the five of the books in the ongoing Song of Ice and Fire series, I’ve come to realize something. I really like the world George RR Martin has created! In fact, you might say I haven’t found myself becoming so engrossed with a fictional universe since Dune or Lord of the […]

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Cool Ships (volume VIII)

by storiesbywilliams on May 17, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged 2000 dune miniseries, alliance escort carrier, arrakeen, arrakis, battle of bilbringi, battle of installation 05, battleship yamato, battlestar flight pod, Battlestar Galactica, boomer, caprica, cardassian union, centurions, cloaking device, corellian, corellian freighter, Covenant, cylon heavy raider, cylon raider, darth malak, darth revan, david lynchs dune, disruptors, dominion war, Dune, flight pod, FTL, gamilons, general martok, grand admiral thrawn, halcyon-class cruiser, han solo, imperium, interdictor-class cruiser, jedi order, klingon empire, kobol, KOTOR, mechas, milennium falcon, negh'var class cruiser, ornithopter, paul muad'ib, photon torpedoes, protoculture, quasar fire-class cruiser, robotech, scattered, Sci-Fi, science fiction, sharon valerii, space ships, star destroyer, star trek ds9, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, star wars: knights of the old republic, starbuck, the farm, the great war, the leviathan, thrawn trilogy, truce at bakura, usnc in amber clad, valkyrie, vf-1 veritech, vladivostok-class missile frigate, yt-2400 freighter

Battleship Yamato: A couple times now I’ve given praise to ship designs that went beyond the usual airplane/ seafaring paradigm. But what can you say about a spaceship which is a carbon copy of a old sea battleship? I don’t know, gutsy maybe? That its paying homage to the original? That’s all I can really […]

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Worlds of Dune

by storiesbywilliams on April 3, 2012 in Sci-Fi, Books, Series and tagged Frank Herbert, Dune, Paul Atreides, fremen, Jessica, bene gesserit, sardaukar, feyd rathau, baron harkonnen, duke leto, gurney halleck, duncan idaho, chani, arrakis, kaitain, house corrino, house harkonnen, house atreides, geidi prime, caladan, selusa secundus, sandworms, arrakeen, spacing guild, tleilaxu, the spice, chapterhouse, honored matres, Ix, Ixian, chapterhouse dune, ghola, gholas, bene tleilax, no-ship, dune novels, dune messiah, children of dune, heretics of dune, planets of dune, tleilax, dr yueh, miles teg, leto II, The Tyrant Leto II, golden lion throne, hagal quartz, whalefur, no-cell, no-field, malky, hwi noree, god emperor of dune, wallach IX, shai-hulud, the maker, face dancer, axlotl tank, old imperium, old empire

Hello all and welcome back. Starting today, I thought I’d get into a cheerier aspect of science fiction. Not that I don’t looooove dystopian stuff, but after days and days of romping through endless examples of totalitarian, cyberpunk and just generally dark futures, I thought it might be time for a break. And it just […]

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Best Dune Lines!

by storiesbywilliams on July 21, 2011 in Best Lines, Movies and tagged arrakeen, arrakis, baron harkonnen, baron vladimir harkonnen, doctor kynes, Dune 2000, Dune miniseries, dune quotes, emperor, feyd, Frank Herbert, guild, Jessica, lady jessica, mother superior, Paul Atreides, Sci-Fi, science fiction, spice, the voice

Hey all! As you can plainly see, I did a rather long review of Dune, the movie and miniseries, recently. One thing that kept coming to mind was all the great lines that made it in. Some of these were taken from the novel, others were the result of John Harrison’s imagination. Either way, they […]

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Dune, the miniseries (Part III)

by storiesbywilliams on July 18, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged arrakeen, Atreides, baron harkonnen, bene gesserit, chani, duke leto, Dune, Dune 2000, Dune miniseries, emperor, fedaykin, fenrig, feyd, fremen, guild, gurney, harkonnen, irulan, Jessica, lady jessica, Leto, Muad'Dib, naib, othyem, princess irulan, sandworms, sardaukar, Sci-Fi, science fiction, sietch, spacing guild, water of life, yueh

We come at last to Part III and the final act of the Dune miniseries! Been a long time in coming, and funny thing is, I tried to do all in one post. Now here I am breaking it into four just so I can cover the original movie and the miniseries faithfully. But as […]

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