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Dune: Everything You Didn't Know (Original Post) yuiyoshida Sep 2018 OP
He who controls the spice controls the universe. tymorial Sep 2018 #1
No doubt WestIndianArchie Sep 2018 #2
I desperately hope that the Spice sdfernando Sep 2018 #3
It ain't the spice..... LunaSea Sep 2018 #5
Serious laugh out loud. tymorial Sep 2018 #11
He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing. Iggo Sep 2018 #8
It was rejected by practically every publisher in the world before it got published... First Speaker Sep 2018 #4
I highly recommend this DUNE documentary LunaSea Sep 2018 #6
I will not fear...fear is the mind-killer... First Speaker Sep 2018 #9
It is by will alone BBG Sep 2018 #7
Neat area51 Sep 2018 #10
"Dune" one of my favorites. The books and the film. nt oasis Sep 2018 #12

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
4. It was rejected by practically every publisher in the world before it got published...
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 11:16 PM
Sep 2018

...but within the SF world, when Analog published it in two long serials, it was instantly recognized as a classic. Finally, a minor publisher, Chilton, who had a small but respectable track record with SF, took a gamble on it...and the rest is history.

LunaSea

(2,893 posts)
6. I highly recommend this DUNE documentary
Sun Sep 9, 2018, 12:20 AM
Sep 2018

The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel, Dune.





A film that was never made yet influenced every science fiction film that came after it.
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