dude, you got the totally wrong idea. Personally, I think that the Herbert series is the best SF series of all time, because of the intricat issues that it deals with. As far as his making hodge-podge worlds, the same could be said of any of the popular authors that you mentioned, especially Pournelle and Niven (Mote in God's Eye, specifically). I personally think that Herbert made an incredibly detailed and working model of the future. But, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. padan
oh come on. I bought the book, and really didn't know what to expect. I had read some of that...guy...Anderson's SW books, and hadn't been too terribly dissapointed, but as this book being a prequel to the Dune legacy, I was just saddened. It really was not at all up to par, and I don't consider it part of the Dune series at all. padan
Well, to begin with we have the original Lynch production that was shown in the theaters (as a side note, Lynch was offered to direct Return of the Jedi, but passed in order to do Dune), and was released as both letterbox and regular cuts. This is the version that is narrated by Princess Irulan. There are two more versions, one that started as a director's cut, but which Lynch disavowed all influence with, and the intro is with paintings and a male narrator. The third version is one that you will probably won't be able to find, as a station in Cal. pieced together segments of the two previous versions into one movie. This is not available commercially. A good url to use to find specifics about these is http://members.aol.com/hiphats/arrakis1.html hope this helps, padan
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dude, you got the totally wrong idea. Personally, I think that the Herbert series is the best SF series of all time, because of the intricat issues that it deals with. As far as his making hodge-podge worlds, the same could be said of any of the popular authors that you mentioned, especially Pournelle and Niven (Mote in God's Eye, specifically). I personally think that Herbert made an incredibly detailed and working model of the future. But, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. padan
oh come on. I bought the book, and really didn't know what to expect. I had read some of that...guy...Anderson's SW books, and hadn't been too terribly dissapointed, but as this book being a prequel to the Dune legacy, I was just saddened. It really was not at all up to par, and I don't consider it part of the Dune series at all. padan
Well, to begin with we have the original Lynch production that was shown in the theaters (as a side note, Lynch was offered to direct Return of the Jedi, but passed in order to do Dune), and was released as both letterbox and regular cuts. This is the version that is narrated by Princess Irulan. There are two more versions, one that started as a director's cut, but which Lynch disavowed all influence with, and the intro is with paintings and a male narrator. The third version is one that you will probably won't be able to find, as a station in Cal. pieced together segments of the two previous versions into one movie. This is not available commercially. A good url to use to find specifics about these is http://members.aol.com/hiphats/arrakis1.html hope this helps, padan