Frank Herbert's Dune
bookshelves of doom (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Josh Harnett is apparently a fan of Party Girl. Cute Overload loves Frank Herbert. And also llamas. "Free" book scheme in Shanghai not working out so well. Possible solution: Remove the popular books. Citizens Against Pornography challenges (sort of) John...
PooterGeek (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Some might question my claim to geekhood on the grounds that I have never read Tolkein or Herbert. Frank Herbert’s Dune is frequently described as the best science fiction novel ever. Over the past few weeks I have been reading a little bit more of it every evening before going to sleep. Whatever else it [...]
Driive (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Anyone who has read the exquisite Dune novels from Frank Herbert will remember the dew collectors. Pits filled with ovals of plastic, cooling in the night and condensing moisture from the air to provide basic sustenance. Coming from such a lush green place, as I did, it was hard to imagine a more alien existence. That was a fabricated world from the mind of a science fiction genius. It seems though,...
Fresh Bilge (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
When writing the other day of the 1989 Fargo flood, and its terrible successor in 1997, I neglected to mention a curious detail. As the waters rose in 1989, I was working on the final chapters of Elixir, my sci-fi homage and prequel to Frank Herbert’s Dune. I had worked out the plot many months [...]
AterSlash (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
A little history: Before ENIAC was engineered, a “computer” was a human being whose job was to do math, e.g. making ballistics tables for artillery, etc.During WWII the military employed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of human computers.Frank herbert called them “Mentats”.BTW and OT, the black on dark green on this screen is unreadable to geezers (and possibly to young people as well). I really wish...
AterSlash (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
A little history: Before ENIAC was engineered, a “computer” was a human being whose job was to do math, e.g. making ballistics tables for artillery, etc.During WWII the military employed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of human computers.Frank herbert called them “Mentats”.BTW and OT, the black on dark green on this screen is unreadable to geezers (and possibly to young people as well). I really wish...
Hardwood Paroxysm (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
" The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." - Frank Herbert Inspired by and blatantly ripped off from EDSBS , with permission. Images by Getty. NBA blog of the day : The Bratwurst
PrawfsBlawg (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
I was leafing through Frank Herbert's wonderful (and, let us be honest, frequently tiresome) Dune the other day, in between heats of the swimming competition on NBC and the network's adoring description of the Chinese train to Tibet and the Three Gorges Dam. Whatever made my eyes linger on this quote? In honor of the na-Baron's nativity and to remind all Harkonnens and subjects that Feyd-Rautha was...
Wizbang (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I just finished re-reading Frank Herbert's most famous work, Dune. A bit of a guilty pleasure that, since I am supposed to be working on a case for my International...
Stolen Thunder (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I just finished re-reading Frank Herbert’s most famous work, Dune . A bit of a guilty pleasure that, since I am supposed to be working on a case for my International Accounting class, having to due with currency exchange translation causing a profitable enterprise to become a losing one, but I tell myself that the diversion makes my mind fresh for the academic work. Which I will do … later. Anyway,...
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Peter Berg has been talking about his ideas for his version of the film adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel Dune, and it sounds like he's planning a much more action adventure type of film to the David Lynch version we've seen on screen. What's also surprising is that Berg may be trying to avoid the political subplot that the story offers, particularly in this current climate....Visit Filmstalker for...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Links of the moment: –Sci-fi fans name best TV shows, movies and books, in a Wired blog. Top ten books are 1984 by George Orwell, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, Dune by Frank Herbert, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, The Stand by Stephen King, Fahrenheit 451 [...]
FreakyTrigger (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
i: i am rereadin THE SANTAROGA BARRIER by frank herbert ftb i am co-host of A BITE OF STARS A SLUG OF TIME AND THOU, and we need to start our homework for SERIES TWO ii: i have probbly not reread it since i was in my teens (= the 70s what were we thinkin) and [...]
Writer's Resource Center (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Article By Morgan O’Donnell Writing doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It happens in your surroundings, your environment. Frank Herbert’s Dune-a classic science fiction novel-offers some important ideas to apply to your own writing environment. Build Community Although the so-called, romantic idea of the solitary writer has been around for ages, the truth is that good writing, [...]
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
YouTube via zrnho "Schulze, 1978 Classic track frank herbert - from " X ". video made and edited by zrnho.. hope you enjoy thankyou.. "
