me(l)(z)(llie)Mar 3, 2024

I think I had a better experience with Dune 2 than Dune 1.

But I also read the book in-between watching the two so who even knows.

All the same, I have The Thoughts. The most important of which is, as a sci-fi enthusiast, let me tell you: this is fantasy.

Show threadSt Woke of PronounsMar 3, 2024
@me The Space Opera side of scifi has always leaned heavily on fantasy.
Show threadme(l)(z)(llie)
@glencoe I mean, historically, we all did
Mar 3, 2024 at 10:05pmWeb
Show threadSt Woke of PronounsMar 3, 2024
@me from the other side though, all fantasy is just alt-historical scifi! Magic etc, that's just tech in a fake moustache and glasses!
Show threadSt Woke of PronounsMar 3, 2024
@me Julian May's saga of Pliocene Exile does a real good job of both.
Show threadSt Woke of PronounsMar 4, 2024
@me granted though it's of the 80s, so if you do pick it up there's prob a lot of capital P problematic stuff in there I have forgotten, but I remember enjoying them sometime in the early 90s.
Show threadme(l)(z)(llie)Mar 4, 2024
@glencoe ultimately that is part of the beauty of sci-fi: the "dated"-ness of it just becomes a record of where we've been, from whence we came. So, to tie back into book Dune and ""fantasy"" I see these older works as having more overlap with fantasy in that they have backward facing elements (our history vs the future). Not BAD as much as something to be aware of imo - in my consuming and processing habits anyway