08-Jun-2011, 01:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-Jun-2011, 01:58 AM by Ajita Kamal.)
(07-Jun-2011, 11:35 PM)Lije Wrote:(07-Jun-2011, 11:14 PM)preshanth Wrote: Do try frank herbert and his dune series fabulous read which is a satire of the human dependence on oil amongst other things.
I knew that the arabs were the inspiration for fremen, but I never thought of spice as a proxy for oil. I'm a die hard fan of the Dune novel and have read it several times, but never made that connection. Thanks for bringing it up!
Ditto what Lije said. I completed all the original Frank Herbert ones years ago and have been reading the later ones by his son Brian and co-author Kevin Anderson. I wasn't too sure about, thinking they couldn't be as good as the original series, but they've been surprisingly good. Perhaps even better in some respects.
"Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian"
~ J.B.S.Haldane, on being asked to falsify evolution.
~ J.B.S.Haldane, on being asked to falsify evolution.