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Significantly, in DUNE they are one and the same thing, the Guild navigators travelling through larger distances of space in shorter periods of time than are allowable within the temporal protocols of the cosmos by manipulating time itself.
Archive 2008-07-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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You see, the emotional point of DUNE is that Paul Mu'ad-Dib is not a messiah, but a genetically-bred superman: Paul is not a god, and he cannot control the events he sets in motion.
MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2) 2008
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Significantly, in DUNE they are one and the same thing, the Guild navigators travelling through larger distances of space in shorter periods of time than are allowable within the temporal protocols of the cosmos by manipulating time itself.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Magic Hal Duncan 2008
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The Darwinian view is amply and bleakly represented in DUNE; both the Sardaukar terror-troops and the undefeatable Fremen are what they are due to evolutionary pressures of their absurdly harsh environments, for example.
MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2) 2008
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Aren't the people in DUNE just Zwilniks after all?
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One of the very few things Herbert never made very clear in DUNE was what the wyrding way looked like.
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DUNE is still the book I would hand to any muggle if I wanted to introduce them to science fiction.
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DUNE is still the book I would hand to any muggle if I wanted to introduce them to science fiction.
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(One also assumes that something, perhaps the warrior-mystique of the aristocratic class in DUNE, forbad the use of body-armor underneath the shield: otherwise they would have all dressed like jousting knights in titanium-steel.)
Explain Me This 2005
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For example, in DUNE, in order to have a swords-and-spaceships background, Mr. Herbert had to come up with an explanation why a spacefaring peoples would use swords.
Explain Me This 2005
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