Dune is the sci-fi thing that taught me as a kid that sci-fi can be far more than star wars (which took up a lot of my childhood play) and LotR (which was extremely formative on me as a vast and beautiful world filled with deep and interesting characters and topics. #ElvesAreBetterThanDwarves). It provided a story wherein it wasn’t the characters, nor the actions, that made the story interesting - it was the world itself. Star Wars is cool because there’s characters like Vader, Boba Fett, Han Solo, ETC - not so much because of the world (until the clone wars cartoon and the novels fleshed out the world and turned SW into a deep and diverse platform to write and imagine about). LotR is dope because it’s the classic long-form adventure “epic poem” where the heroes have a clearly defined goal and evil is obviously evil, which takes place in a beautiful (NZ) scenery and has a rad af soundtrack. But Dune, every single little thing about it has everything to do with the guiding ideal - spice is a highly valuable mineral, which empires have been mining for generations. Also the scene where the guy’s head explodes, that was cool.
Same fam. I read lotr growing up, then silmarillion, was hooked on the stories and the epic poem style. I reread it recently after finding the audiobook, it’s still really good. So many good stories. Noldor ftw.
Dune is so damn good, I still need to read some of the sequels. I’m told the next two are good too. I absolutely refuse to watch the movie tho, I’m just gonna keep rereading the book.
I’ve only watched the movie from 1984, though I plan to eventually read the books and whatnot.
do it. The book is so damn good.
