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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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Worlds of Dune

by storiesbywilliams on April 3, 2012 in Sci-Fi, Books, 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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Of Galactic Empires

by storiesbywilliams on March 9, 2012 in Sci-Fi, Series and tagged arrakis, Babylon 5, babylon 5 movies, battletech, Butlerian Jihad, centauri, custodian, dark ages, decline and fall of the roman empire, Dune, earth alliance, edward gibbon, foundation, foundation series, fremen, galactic empire, gene roddenberry, george lucas, hari seldon, history of the decline and fall of the roman empire, house atreides, house corrino, house harkonnen, in the beginning, interstellar alliance, Isaac Asimov, j michael straczynski, kaitan, league of non-aligned worlds, legends of dune series, mech warriors, mimbari, narn regime, narns, old republic, padisha emperor, Paul Atreides, planetkillers, planets, psychohistory, selusa secundus, Star Trek, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, the borg, the first ones, the shadows, the spice, thinking machines, united federation of planets, vorlons

Hello again, fellow sci-fi fans! Today, I thought I’d write about something conceptual, something that is intrinsic to so much science fiction and keeps popping up in various forms. It’s something that has appeared in countless serials, novels, tv shows, movies, and RPG’s. I am referring, of course, to the concept of the Galactic Empire, […]

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Legends of Dune Prequels

by storiesbywilliams on November 5, 2011 in Books, Reviews and tagged agamemnon, AI, Brian Herbert, Butlerian Jihad, cymeck, Dune, dune interquels, dune prequels, dune sequels, erasmus, evil the cat, fan fiction, foldspace, foldspace technology, Frank Herbert, fremen, geidi prime, ginaz, ginaz swordmasters, golden duck, guild highliners, holtzman engines, hunters of dune, iblis ginjo, Kevin J Anderson, KJA, legends of dune, machines, mentat, norma cenva, omnius, sandworms of dune, selusa secundus, serena butler, spice, spice harvesting, synchronized worlds, the fremen, the guild, the machine crusade, the spice, thinking machines, tio holtzman, titans, tleilaxu, vorian atreides, xavier harkonnen

Last time around, I made a big deal about prequels and why they aren’t so good. And of course, the Dune prequels were featured pretty prominently in that post. However, what I came to realize shortly after writing it was that I’ve never dedicated a post to the prequel work of Brian Herbert and Kevin […]

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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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