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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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Dune, the miniseries (Part I)

by storiesbywilliams on July 16, 2011 in Movies, Reviews and tagged alia, arrakis, Atreides, baron harkonnen, bene gesserit, Butlerian Jihad, caladan, chani, classic sci-fi, doctor kynes, doctor yueh, duke leto, duncan idaho, Dune, Dune 2000, dune fansites, Dune franchise, Dune miniseries, Dune universe, feyd, Frank Herbert, frank herberts dune, geidi prime, harkonnen, irulan, Jessica, kaitain, Kwizats Haderach, Leto, lyet kynes, mahdi, Muad'Dib, padisha emperor, Paul Atreides, piter de vries, princess irulan, rabban, reverend mother, sandworm, sardaukar, sci fi channel, Sci-Fi, science fiction, selusa secundus, spice, stilgar, thufir hawat

In my previous post, I think I made it pretty clear that the Dune movie was a flop. And I mean this in every sense of the word: commercially, critically – hell, even Lynch distanced himself from it! But that was to be expected, since Dune is just not something that translates into a movie […]

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Of Dune and its Descendents

by storiesbywilliams on March 28, 2011 in Books, Reviews and tagged Arakis, Atreides, baron, bene gesserit, classic sci-fi, duke, Dune, dune sextet, dune trilogy, Frank Herbert, fremen, harkonnens, Jessica, Leto, Paul Atreides, Philip k dick, sardaukar, Sci-Fi, science fiction, spice

I could never create a blog about science fiction without mentioning the man who is by most standards the greatest sci-fi author of all time. Frank Herbert, author of the Dune sextet, was not only a master at creating detailed universes and realistic characters, he was also the man who literally wrote the book on […]

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