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sebmojo posted:Brian herbert actually wrote a couple of books that are, not great, but are at least entertainingly odd before he turned his attention to his father's cadaver and that is all we can ask.
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I might be done with Children. I'm just not taking any of it in. Or I just need to take a break from Dune material, which is what I'll try.
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Oct 3, 2021 21:29
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I feel in the end it probably came down to kevin j anderson living exactly in the center of the venn diagram of "will not say no to any idea, no matter how inane" "works for cheap" "cranks that slop out"
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No Mods No Masters posted:I feel in the end it probably came down to kevin j anderson living exactly in the center of the venn diagram of "will not say no to any idea, no matter how inane" "works for cheap" "cranks that slop out" in the end it doesn't even matter
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Oct 3, 2021 21:33
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Tree Bucket posted:I enjoyed this post. That's basically Charles Stross's Laundry series. Not bad once you get past the narrator reading like a circa 1999 Slashdot poster... Stross tends to stumble back and forth across the line dividing "taking the piss out of genres" and "I earnestly think this is super neat"
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Tree Bucket posted:I enjoyed this post. That was literally the reason Hellboy exists. Time traveling wizard brings forth a demon, for the Nazis. Then he ate pam-cakes
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sebmojo posted:Brian herbert actually wrote a couple of books that are, not great, but are at least entertainingly odd before he turned his attention to his father's cadaver I believe that I read both 'Paul of Dune' and 'Dune: House Atreides'. While not as good as the original six.....I feel like neither was all that bad. It would be funny if they attempted to shoehorn some 'Paul of Dune' stuff into the second film.....since it takes place in between 'Dune' and 'Dune Messiah'.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:I believe that I read both 'Paul of Dune' and 'Dune: House Atreides'. While not as good as the original six.....I feel like neither was all that bad. It would be funny if they attempted to shoehorn some 'Paul of Dune' stuff into the second film.....since it takes place in between 'Dune' and 'Dune Messiah'. I believe you read that too
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My Lovely Horse posted:I might be done with Children. I'm just not taking any of it in. Or I just need to take a break from Dune material, which is what I'll try. the laser tiger plot? yeah it doesnt work out (they hide in rocks) Jokerpilled Drudge fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Oct 4, 2021 |
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RestingB1tchFace posted:I believe that I read both 'Paul of Dune' and 'Dune: House Atreides'. While not as good as the original six.....I feel like neither was all that bad. It would be funny if they attempted to shoehorn some 'Paul of Dune' stuff into the second film.....since it takes place in between 'Dune' and 'Dune Messiah'. 
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:they laser tiger Why do people keep saying this? Laza is the name of a few places in Eastern Europe and Spain, including a river in Romania.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I believe you read that too I don't, I refuse to believe there's actually a book called "Paul of Dune".
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I don't, I refuse to believe there's actually a book called "Paul of Dune". it does sound like a children's book...
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Ten years from now we'll all still be posting in this thread, refusing to believe in titles like The Guy On The Arrakeen Troop Assembly Field That Said "You Scrub Your rear end With Sand"... of Dune.
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Murray Mantoinette posted:Ten years from now we'll all still be posting in this thread, refusing to believe in titles like The Guy On The Arrakeen Troop Assembly Field That Said "You Scrub Your rear end With Sand"... of Dune. is this a good or bad thing?
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Oct 4, 2021 01:00
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Colonel Cancer posted:Janitors of Dune featuring Shadout Mapes scrub without rhythm
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I don't, I refuse to believe there's actually a book called "Paul of Dune". It's not a good name.
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Paul of Dune is one of the few I know about - they have Paul traveling off Caladan a bunch even though Dune says the trip to Arrakis was his first time off planet. So they made Dune less canon than the new books.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Paul of Dune is one of the few I know about - they have Paul traveling off Caladan a bunch even though Dune says the trip to Arrakis was his first time off planet. So they made Dune less canon than the new books. so... it is a children's book?
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Oct 4, 2021 01:37
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Fuschia tude posted:Why do people keep saying this? Laza is the name of a few places in Eastern Europe and Spain, including a river in Romania. Tigers with fricken laser beams
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Oct 4, 2021 03:52
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The entire book is spent setting up these tigers and the kids just hide in some rocks thwarting the entire plot. maybe they should have had lasers
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:The entire book is spent setting up these tigers and the kids just hide in some rocks thwarting the entire plot. maybe they should have had lasers I've only chewed through Children of Dune once, but.. didn't they? Wasn't the bad guys' plot to use laser guided tigers? All I remember from that book is Ghost Vlad being mean to Alia, Leto II rolling in sand, and weaponised tigers.
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Oct 4, 2021 09:05
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the lynchpin of the plot was training the tigers to kill little kids in the atreides uniforms... or maybe it was giving them the uniforms? i dont remember
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Oct 4, 2021 09:20
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:the lynchpin of the plot was training the tigers to kill little kids in the atreides uniforms... or maybe it was giving them the uniforms? i dont remember By pointing a laser at the children, right? Wasn't there an old Sardaukar with a laser pointer rig thing?
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Oct 4, 2021 09:21
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I dont think so, I only call them laser tigers because Laza is inferior to lasers
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Oct 4, 2021 09:24
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Next you're telling me that Mandela didn't die in prison. I'm so confused.
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We call them laser tigers because the actual plan was so loving stupid its conception might as well just have been the laser shark scene from Austin powers.
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Then I've been lying to my Dune-curious friend, because I honestly remembered them having to coerce the tigers into attacking by pointing a laser at their target, like house cats.
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Oct 4, 2021 10:52
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Unless I had the exact same false memory, there is definitely something in the book about the trainer using some kind of electronic interface to either view or outright control the laza tigers.
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He had a remote control yeah
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Since it's fresh in recent memory, the trainer has a control interface, but the tigers are also trained to hunt specifically a pair of kids in specific garments, and part of the plan is to gift the Atreides kids a pair of those garments, in the Atreides style to pass them off as a legit gift. I think I was just at a bit where someone says something like "we've checked all the ways this gift could be a trap and we've got nothing, I guess we have to accept it"
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Pham Nuwen posted:That's basically Charles Stross's Laundry series. Not bad once you get past the narrator reading like a circa 1999 Slashdot poster... Stross tends to stumble back and forth across the line dividing "taking the piss out of genres" and "I earnestly think this is super neat" Most of the books are fun, even if he's taking tropes and either turning them up to eleven (the space elves) or taking the piss (vampires). And the one book where they actually visit a time-line where Nazis won, well... It's a novel take on that idea, as far as I know. That said, they're mostly like...Spy novels? Adventure novels? instead of grandiose epic stuff like DUNC.
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There are no actual lasers involved in the tiger plot. We call them LAZER tigers because it's cool and stuff
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Well I'll probably never read Children again, so in my headcanon they really did use laser guided cats for their assassination plot.
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those twins are creepy AF and I hate them. was rooting for the laser tigers even though i knew
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pnumoman posted:There are no actual lasers involved in the tiger plot. We call them LAZER tigers because it's cool and stuff you'll tell me he's not actually a worm next
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well then you probably don't want to know the real story about how Leto "discovered" that sand trout would stick to his body
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Did you know, Dear Moneo, that when I was a child I was set upon by remote-controlled tigers? If I recall this was after my sister and I had considered incest Yes, lord said Moneo, inching towards the door Moneo could see the worm was close
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:those twins are creepy AF and I hate them. was rooting for the laser tigers even though i knew It's kinda funny how the girl twin seemed to be more on the ball than Leto and more active, then was largely just forgotten for the rest of the books.
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