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Technology in the Dune Universe

by storiesbywilliams on June 3, 2012 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged arrakis, atomics, axlotl tank, duke leto atreides, Dune, fedaykin, foldspace, foldspace technology, Frank Herbert, fremen, guild heighliners, guild navigators, holtzman engines, holtzman shields, house atreides, house corrin, Ixian, ixian probe, lasgun, leto II, miles teg, no-chamber, no-ship, ornithopter, Paul Atreides, prison planet, sand crawler, sandworms, sardaukar, Sci-Fi, science fiction, selusca secundus, spice, stillsuits, stone burner, technology of dune, the bene gesserit, the bulterian jihad, the fremen, the great convention, the tleilaxu

Hello again techies and social studies experts! I’m sorry, I assume those are the only two kinds of people who would enjoy these posts Regardless, I love doing them, mainly because it gives me a chance to exercise a little critical thinking when it comes to some of the most popular franchises of science fiction. […]

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Worlds of Dune

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

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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KJA and my conversation… continued

by storiesbywilliams on December 6, 2011 in Books, Sci-Fi and tagged Brian Herbert, Butlerian Jihad, chapterhouse dune, daniel and marty, duncan idaho, Dune, dune 7, dune prequels, dune sequels, dune series, face dancers, Frank Herbert, gholas, hunters of dune, Kevin J Anderson, legends of dune, legends of dune series, no-ship, sandworms of dune, tachyon net, the old man and woman

Okay, yesterday, the conversation I mentioned in the previous post, between myself and KJA (and several of his fans) began. And here’s where it ended just now. All in all, the folks there aren’t bad, their opinions notwithstanding, so I intend to stick around on it and see if I convert anyone! In any case, […]

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