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    New Tor.com Print-On-Demand Line Launches with "Year's Best Fantasy 9"

    New Online Bookstore Is "Agnostic," But It'll Be a Religious Experience For You

    Why Dune Is The Perfect SF Novel For People Who Only Read Fantasy

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/10/09

    In reply to New Tor.com Print-On-Demand Line Launches with "Year's Best Fantasy 9"
    This really is a great line-up. I'll be ordering it.
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    09/10/09

    In reply to New Tor.com Print-On-Demand Line Launches with "Year's Best Fantasy 9"
    Print-on-Demand is pretty interesting, but I still like my hardcover collections.
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    06/19/09

    In reply to New Online Bookstore Is "Agnostic," But It'll Be a Religious Experience For You
    The Tor site is great. I especially enjoy the recaps of Star Trek TOS episodes and Kage Baker's posts about silent genre movies.
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    04/09/09

    In reply to Why Dune Is The Perfect SF Novel For People Who Only Read Fantasy
    I love "Dune." But Dune IS fantasy, not science fiction. How do the pilots fold space? They use a magic dust called "spice." Incidentally, "Star Wars" isn't science fiction either (the Force)... And I love Star Wars.
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    04/09/09

    @Freddy-D: They fold space with generators, actually.
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    04/09/09

    In reply to Why Dune Is The Perfect SF Novel For People Who Only Read Fantasy
    Anybody who needs an SF frame of reference for Western misadventures in the Arab world need only read this book.
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    04/09/09

    In reply to Why Dune Is The Perfect SF Novel For People Who Only Read Fantasy
    The thing that always got me about Dune was how it was a really short story, but the book was massive and packed, but never seemed to "drag" on. It's tough to describe, but if you look at it, it really doesn't take place over that long of a time frame. But it also doesn't dwell to long on any one event, which you imagine a book that big would. Darn, I wish I could describe it better.
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    04/09/09

    In reply to Why Dune Is The Perfect SF Novel For People Who Only Read Fantasy
    Why is Dune such an important novel in Speculative Fiction? Because it makes people do things like this: [dropline.net]
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    04/09/09

    @Grey_Area: Oh damn, I am laughing so hard and so is everyone I've sent this to. Truly, you are the Kwisatz Haderach!
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    04/09/09

    In reply to Why Dune Is The Perfect SF Novel For People Who Only Read Fantasy
    I completely agree. Many friends of mine think normal scifi is lame, but they eat up Dune and Star Wars like hotcake. They're all still too afraid to make the jump to the likes of Star Trek though.
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    04/09/09

    @Pessimippopotamus is at 0% productivity: Most people are afraid of SF like Star Trek because of their assumption that it would be too "technical", and that tremendous amounts of research about characters, events, and technologies has to be done.
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    04/09/09

    @Gluon Guy: I've always been afraid of Star Trek because all the clips I've seen have revealed what seems to be a frighteningly sterile universe. I've only ever really seen bits of TNG. I don't know, something about the uniforms and the very controlled speaking tones creeped me the hell out.
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    04/09/09

    @Adah: That's why you need to see TOS. Uniforms yes, controlled speaking no!
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    04/09/09

    In reply to Why Dune Is The Perfect SF Novel For People Who Only Read Fantasy
    Just don't read the rest of the series and you'll do fine.
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    04/09/09

    @LiC: Agreed. I read the first and was happy at first to see more in the series.


    I don't think I even managed to get a quarter of the way through the second book...

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    04/09/09

    @LiC: Mmmm, not me. I liked them up until I was about 1/4 through Chapterhouse, at which point I felt like somebody had used tasty candy to lead me down into a well.
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    04/10/09

    @LiC:
    Dune is definitely the best of the original novels (haven't read the new stuff), but they were readable through God Emperor. After that it felt like Herbert had a falling out with his wife and got kicked out of the bedroom or something.
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    04/09/09

    In reply to Why Dune Is The Perfect SF Novel For People Who Only Read Fantasy
    As a young fantasy reader, Dune was most definitely my bridge to SF, just as One Hundred Years of Solitude was my bridge to literature more broadly.
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