From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 22:12:17 MST
We are a Desert Power! Not those poor schmucks on Dune, the :-) ok Australia
and the UK too! The show depicted a stone burner detonating, which was done
in a rather lovely manner. A slow-motion, cylindrical nuke. I only saw the
first part of the series. I liked it slightly better than the 2002 Sci-Fi
network Dune series. The new series seems more depressed and more brutal then
the first series. But that is what Hebert's point was: don't create gods and
make them your rulers, cause it'll screw things up mightily.
I am currently reading several of Wil McCarthy's works, after completing his
science fact book, Hacking Matter. The works are quite good, and moves one
along. I miss Herbert's contribution to science fiction writing and science
philosophy, probably more so than even Heinlein's works. McCarthy seems to be
a hybrid between D.Broderick + Herbert, writing style and interests. And you
thought clonning was a little ways off!
<<Apparently this Frank Herbert miniseries was shown last week in the US.
There's a certain irony, I suppose (desert warfare, the frailty of
forecasting the future, `the [x] must flow', etc). Leaving that aside,
what's the reaction of those extropes who've been viewing it?
Damien Broderick>>
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