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My First Troll!

by storiesbywilliams on June 9, 2012 in Authors, Books, News and tagged Brian Herbert, Dune, dune 7, dune and its descendents, dune prequels, dune sequels, Dune universe, Frank Herbert, kevin j anderson and brian herbert

Wow, this is what it feels like to experience hate mail! I gotta say, I’m kind of flattered. It was in reference to my article “Dune and Its Descendents”, one of many in which I praised the late Frank Herbert for his amazing work over the years and bashed the work that has followed in […]

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More Cool Guns!

by storiesbywilliams on May 29, 2012 in Sci-Fi, Movies, Series, Cool Guns and tagged Dune universe, Terminator, Kyle Reese, District 9, skynet, halo, beretta 92FS, UNSC, lasgun, Halo 2, space marines, warhammer 40k, robocop, halo 3, the sol, auto 9, robocop gun, tesla rifle, type 25 directed energy rifle, plasma rifle, elites plasma rifle, brutes plasma rifle, rbs-80 phased plasma pulse gun, t-800 terminator, the resistance, m6 Grindell/Galilean nonlinear rifle, imperium of man, dune lasgun, c-14 impaler, gauss rifle

This post is a follow-up to one I did awhile back, one which featured weapons from the sci-fi universe. At the time, I really wasn’t planning on doing a follow-up. However, since I began writing about existing weapons that just happen to look like something out of sci-fi, I happened to find some more that […]

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Cool Ships (volume V)

by storiesbywilliams on May 11, 2012 in Books, Movies, Series, Cool Ships and tagged wireless, Dune, Paul Atreides, Dune universe, FTL, Star Wars, Alien, Weyland Yutani, baron harkonnen, duke leto atreides, arrakis, Battlestar Galactica, darth vader, luke skywalker, Babylon 5, foldspace, holtzman engines, sheridan, delenn, earth alliance, shadow war, earth force, rebel alliance, xenomorph, nostromo, LV-426, ellen ripley, heart of gold, medical frigate, artificial hand, nebula-b frigate, hospital ship, jones the cat, cool ships volume 5, guild heighliner, navigator, spice tanks, colonial raptor, cylon war, fly-by-wire, cylon virus, the cygnus, the black hole, gunstar, the last starfighter, improbability drive, quantum theory, zaphod beeblebrox, minbari cruiser, sharlin-class cruiser, earth-minbari war, minbari federation, the nostromo, freespace 2, sathanas juggernaut, the shivans, the colussus, the deimos

Back again! More ships, more designs, more franchises too. Like I said last time, there’s just no limit when you get right down to it. And in the course of doing my homework on cool sci-fi concepts, I’ve found that there are hundreds of franchises out there that I’ve never even heard of before. Of […]

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Dune, the miniseries (Part I)

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

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 Conclusion

by storiesbywilliams on April 7, 2011 in Books, Reviews and tagged Brian Herbert, Dune, Dune franchise, Dune universe, franchise, Frank Herbert, Harry Ticks of Dune, Heroes of Dune, interquels, Jacarutu, Kevin J Anderson, legacy, prequels, Sci-Fi, science fiction, sequels

Since posting my thoughts on Dune and its descendants, I’ve found that there are no shortage of people out there who agree with me. In fact, there are even sites dedicated to expressing the dissatisfaction Herbert fans have with the garbage his son and Kevin J Anderson have been putting out. Not surprising really, but […]

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