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On the subject of the Dune Legends series (the prequels Brian Herbert co-wrote with Kevin J. Anderson), I would agree that their definitely not "good" books. If you're a big fan of Frank Herbert, or his Dune stuff specifically, don't read them. If you're looking for a mildly entertaining book to read, the kind of thing that has building sized cyborgs destroying poo poo (which I suspect is probably Andersons influence), then go ahead. Their a lot more entertaining if you pretend their action stories that have nothing to do with Dune.
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:Also I haven't read the books but aren't the major behind-the-scenes bad guys an order of women-only ninja space nuns or something? The Bene Gesserit. The major inspiration for which, if I remember correctly, was Frank Herbert growing up around a bunch of older catholic women.
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Regarding the Jesus Incident. My first reaction after reading it was "Holy poo poo, Sid Meier must love this book."
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It's been years since I read the original Dune novels, so I might be forgetting some details, but something I've been wondering. We know the goal of the Bene Gesserit breeding program was to create the Kwizats Hadderach (I have no idea if that's the right spelling), but why was that important? I mean, if we ignore all the Brian Herbert stuff, why did the witches want to create a superbeing? As an aside, I really liked that the song for area five in Rez is called Fear Is The Mind Killer.
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Well, it's mentioned that urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads, so I assumed you just poo poo down the legs of your suit.
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Favorite Heinlein work is definitely The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I always loved how they used the lunar colony's cargo launcher (a massive coil gun, if I remember correctly) to lob giant chunks of moon rock at Earth.
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basic hitler posted:My perspecrive comes from the choices of the narrator for heretics, who portrays them in an east asian accent. It kinda works though I haven't heard any of the audiobooks but, in my head, Scytale sounds exactly like Wallace Shawn.
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May 15, 2018 21:44
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Turmoil posted:Is that what gives the Honored Matres the orange in their eyes? The Honored Matres use an adrenaline based drug to heighten their physical abilities, I think that's what makes their eyes orange.
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May 25, 2018 17:29
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I think they primarily feed on sand plankton.
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May 28, 2018 21:03
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Don Ameche, acting planet
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This thread has inspired me to re-read the series. I'm partway through Heretics, and I noticed something that seems to have been entirely abandoned after Heretics. At least I think so. I mean, I haven't restarted Chapterhouse yet. The Honored Maters and the new face dancers aren't the only faction coming back from the scattering. There's at least a groups oppesed to the Honored Maters. After Burzmali rescues Duncan and Lucilla, the woman that helps them get into the city seems to be from a group that's trained to kill Honored Maters.
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I'm down with the idea of Marty and Daniel being facedancers. Assuming that's where Frank was going with it, I do wonder about how they were able to contact Duncan. I mean, as others have suggested, maybe they were facedancers that absorbed so many lives they became god-like. I was thinking it may have had something to do with whatever the Tleilaxu had done to this incarnation of Duncan. We still don't what all they crammed into his cells.
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General Battuta posted:Duncan donuts Time to make the gholas!
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Murray Mantoinette posted:The Weirding Way is just punching straight through someone’s entire body My fists are killing words!
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Jul 24, 2018 00:04
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Testikles posted:Same about Leto II. Becoming a giant worm snd possibly remaining half concious among worm bodies for eternity is a hell of a trap Which is kind of funny, when you think about it. Paul, the first person we ever see subjected to the gom jabar, ultimately fails the test by refusing to stay in the trap.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I hear it sung to the tune of Felis Navidad. You could have a big number where all the BG come out and sing "I'm every woman."
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Chiwetel Ejiofor as Duncan I'd go with Mads as Piter, personally.
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Patrick Stewart as a third stage navigator!
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Pham Nuwen posted:Avery Brooks as Shaddam It just hit me. Avery Brooks as Stilgar.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:He could pull it off really well I think Now that you mention it, I think he might be better as Count Fenring. E: I can just hear the "hmmmmmmm, ahhhhhhhh" manerisms of Fenring in his voice. Shaddak fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Aug 28, 2018 |
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Is the turning into a reptilian thing really just from spice exposure? We see lots of people do a fuckload of spice, and the most that happens to them is they become a worm-person and that isn’t even because of the spice they did. I mean, tne navigators don't just eat it, the literally live in it. Besides, I thought only particular people could become navigators, even with the mega spice exposure.
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D. Ebdrup posted:I loving well hope so. Speaking of leather faces, Lance Henriksen might work for that.
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sebmojo posted:With their magical mind controlling penis techniques It's practically prehensile!
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Gonna run out of empty wasteland states soon pls help Minot North Dakota
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Meatbrick Punch-hard
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BIG MEATY SHITS posted:102nd i think, unless their calendar is post bj (lol) It starts in the year 10191, but I think they measure that from the formation of the spacing guild (i don't remember ifthat detail is the originals, or not). Who knows when the guild formed. So, somewhere in the 102nd, or further.
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As much as I wish Old Frank were still alive, I'm glad he didn't live to see how terrible an author his son is.
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I've got it! The battle pugs were so awesome, they provided the genetic stock for all future chairdogs.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:In that case she really shouldn't look like she's a well-worn 147 and never went outside a day in her life. She's Jessica's mother and managed to get Vlad all horned up, for heaven's sake. Sure, that's true. I get the impression, though, that the BG can turn on the sexy just with body language (regardless of how old they look).
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Yeah, I absolutely have that impression too, but character design has to be believable and I don't find Reverend Mother Gollum at all believable. Fair enough. I was thinking more along the lines of some9ne consciously exaggerating their oldness.
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Bautista just put this out on his instagram.
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Yeah, I get it. I mean, I never really thought of him as Rabban Harkonnen. I normally think of him as Beast Rabban. Though, in recent years, I've had a tendency to rename him in my head after one of my recent Skyrim characters, Meatbrick Punch-hard.
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Murray Mantoinette posted:Casting Dave Bautista will likely only further encourage that tendency. Likely true. Meatbrick was basically a mix of Drax and Groot. A man who would beat everyone to death, but was so stupid he could only say his own name. Getting back to Dune, I really like the idea of Feyd being the anti-Paul. In light of that, I kind of hope that whoever plays Feyd looks a lot like Timothee Chalamet.
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sebmojo posted:Is that feyd? That right there is a twisted mentat.
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Temaukel posted:I was bored today thinking about the Dune map. Arrakis seems to be ridiculously tiny, about the size of the moon, according to the distances in the map. The only way for it to make sense would be if the supposed 60º line was actually more than 80º (equivalent to northern Greenland). If Arrakis is actually the size of the moon (60º line being correct), then it would have to be almost 6 times more dense than the moon for it to have a gravity similar to earth. Something something space-folding
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Here, it's been retconned in the encyclopedia: Not that I expect complete accuracy but, that acceleration listed is .88g. Whereas, based on the density and radius, it should be .86g. Yeah, yeah, I'm a nerd.
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:I don't get what you are saying. I never read the prequels and the original books are pretty clear that navigators have limited powers and are responsible of plotting a safe course through space and time (what computers would do before the butlerian jihad probably) ? There's no real way of knowing that, as I don't think Old Frank ever spelled out what people did for space travel before the guild (I may be wrong about that, it's been a few years). Although it's never explicitly spelled out in the non-existant prequels, Failson strongly implies that people had some sort of FTL engines (just i terms of travel times between planetary systems, that is).
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Mister Speaker posted:Are there any instances in literature where an heir has taken the mantle of their parent's work and done it justice? Or is it failsons abounds? Jerry Pournelles daughter wrote the third book in the Motie series. I don't know how well regarded it is but, I thought it was a pretty good successor.
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Son of Sam-I-Am posted:There's a third book? Time to start looking! Released in 2010, I think. Definitely focuses more on social science (politics and religion) than the relatively hard sci-fi of the first two. I don't know if Jennifer Pournelle has written anything else, pretty sure she's an anthropologist. But yeah, I was just as surprised when I found out the book existed. It's called Outies, btw.
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