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phasmid posted:Because of the sheer volume of stuff he wrote, he accidentally crapped out some good prose/ideas now and then. If you haven't already, listen to the conversation between Robin Williams and Harlan Ellison about his early career and how he came up with Scientology at a writer's social club. I had heard it was literally a bong circle boast/tax dodge?
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Schadenboner posted:I had heard it was literally a bong circle boast/tax dodge? I've only heard the one story and I'm not sure how into drugs those guys were. A lot of them claimed to be straight edge. Herbert himself only ever publicly acknowledged doing mescaline once but y'know... However you slice it, it was definitely designed as a scam from the outset.
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i read 8/10 of this garbage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Earth_(novel_series) ask me how broke brained i am now
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phasmid posted:Because of the sheer volume of stuff he wrote, he accidentally crapped out some good prose/ideas now and then. If you haven't already, listen to the conversation between Robin Williams and Harlan Ellison about his early career and how he came up with Scientology at a writer's social club. I hadn't seen this, where's the rest of it. While looking watching this I searched on (what I thought) was a rock solid memory of a quote by Heinlein which apparently was some weird usenet rumor. http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/scientology/start.a.religion.html
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Pimblor posted:I hadn't seen this, where's the rest of it. I do not know 
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phasmid posted:I do not know That's a drat shame. Harlan Ellison was a great speaker. Also, holy crap youtube is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-mLVVJkH7I
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BONGHITZ posted:i read 8/10 of this garbage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Earth_(novel_series) I read 10/10 when I was an impressionable teen and had no idea about its relationship to Hubbard and Scientology Once I figured it out I laughed and laughed and laughed
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put the bi in bicycle posted:I watched the movie on Netflix this week (twice actually, once sober & once drunk with friends) & currently my biggest hope is that the new movie also has dogs what if the dogs in the remake are descendants of the dogs in the original movie 
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Cheap Trick posted:what if the dogs in the remake are descendants of the dogs in the original movie What if some of them are gholas? Or worse, what if some of them are chairdogs? 
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Kevin J. Anderson says "Battlefield Earth is like a 12-hour Indiana Jonesmarathon. Non-stop and fast-paced. Every chapter has a big bang-up adventure."
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Jack-Off Lantern posted:Kevin J. Anderson says "Battlefield Earth is like a 12-hour Indiana Jonesmarathon. Non-stop and fast-paced. Every chapter has a big bang-up adventure." He can't be a real person. This is some kind of long-game troll persona that's been running for decades. No-one can be that objectively wrong while trashing Banks and Le Guin without it being deliberate.
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Wolfechu posted:He can't be a real person. This is some kind of long-game troll persona that's been running for decades. No-one can be that objectively wrong while trashing Banks and Le Guin without it being deliberate. Ye of little faith.
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Schadenboner posted:He could be some sort of exquisite corpse group performance art piece? I wish he was an exquisite corpse
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Murray Mantoinette posted:I wish he was an exquisite corpse His water belongs to his sietch.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:His water belongs to his sietch. You want to taint the sietch??
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THE BAR posted:You want to taint the sietch?? I want to taint all kinds of things. According to Frankie H., wild mixing of genes was one of humanity's major drives.
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The Bloop posted:I wonder if the Fremen have homeopathy Just eat more spice and walk it off.
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The Bloop posted:I wonder if the Fremen have homeopathy You see, sand remembers what has been in it before, furthermore
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Murray Mantoinette posted:I want to taint all kinds of things. According to Frankie H., wild mixing of genes was one of humanity's major drives. Kull Wahad!
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Fremen medicine is actually, as suggested "take more spice, have spice infused food, because if you get sick enough that you need actual medicine you've probably reached a point where you're more useful in the death still" well i'm sure there's minor medicine but i doubt the culture of Dune/Dune Messiah fremen would be at all permissive about wasting money sustaining the severely wounded or dying. I feel like, if i'm wrong there will be book text making that explicit, and i welcome anyone who can recall the relevant details.
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basic hitler posted:I feel like, if i'm wrong there will be book text making that explicit, and i welcome anyone who can recall the relevant details. Dune Messiah posted:“The tribe will collect his water soon,” Dhuri said. She crossed to Otheym, propped pillows behind him, held his shoulder to steady him until the coughing passed. She wasn’t really very old, Paul saw, but a look of lost hopes ringed her mouth, bitterness lay in her eyes.
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@duneauthor posted:“The tribe will collect his water soon,” Dhuri said. She crossed to Otheym, propped pillows behind him, held his shoulder to steady him until the coughing passed. She wasn’t really very old, Paul saw, but a look of lost hopes ringed her mouth, bitterness lay in her eyes.
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Hamster Yueh and the Great Gooeh Kablooeh
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I'm taking the opportunity by being assigned an outbuilding at work to listen to audio performances of the first four Dune books. One thing that I remembered I also didn't understand when I read the books the first time is what exactly is going on with the Dune tarot in Dune Messiah? Is it ever really explained how it's blocking prescient or who's bringing it onto arrakis?
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dreadmojo posted:Hamster Yueh and the Great Gooeh Kablooeh
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I'm so thankful that this thread is in GBS, not CD or the book barn. Any remotely interesting thread in those forums gets filled up with super-geeks talking about their collectible figurines, minute details in worthless prequel bullshit , and shouting down anyone who has an even slightly different opinion. This thread just rolls on like a nice conversation about Dune.
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Yadoppsi posted:I'm taking the opportunity by being assigned an outbuilding at work to listen to audio performances of the first four Dune books. One thing that I remembered I also didn't understand when I read the books the first time is what exactly is going on with the Dune tarot in Dune Messiah? Is it ever really explained how it's blocking prescient or who's bringing it onto arrakis? All Fremen are low-level prescient but their conscious selves deny it except for during the spice orgy. The Dune tarot means they actually use it, and prescience can block other prescience. I think the conspirators were bringing it to Arrakis, probably the Bene Gesserit.
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Edison was a dick posted:All Fremen are low-level prescient but their conscious selves deny it except for during the spice orgy. It's actually just the latest collectible card game.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's actually just the latest collectible card game. Magic: the Scattering
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Doesn't Leto II actually have an ancient Egyptian pharaoh sharing his body If only he could fit a duel disk on the worm body
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Murray Mantoinette posted:Magic: the Scattering
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Doesn't Leto II actually have an ancient Egyptian pharaoh sharing his body Be careful not to encroach on my 32part Dune/Beyblade crossover fanfic
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The Bloop posted:Be careful not to encroach on my 32part Dune/Beyblade crossover fanfic I wouldn't dare impugn the ancient sacred art of battling tops
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Murray Mantoinette posted:Magic: the Scattering Lol
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basic hitler posted:Fremen medicine is actually, as suggested "take more spice, have spice infused food, because if you get sick enough that you need actual medicine you've probably reached a point where you're more useful in the death still" If Dune Encyclopedia counts then there's almost certainly stuff in there about it. I can check.
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Schadenboner posted:If Dune Encyclopedia counts then there's almost certainly stuff in there about it. I can check. The Dune Encyclopedia is more canon than @DumeAuthor work
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