I'm sure some of you remember the old movie, the old pc games (dune, dune 2, super dune 2) dune 2 which actually started the whole rts genre. i would highly recommend the books to read. in the series there is
children of dune
dune
dune messiah
then there are the prelude books
House Atredies
House Harkonnen
House Corrino
there are others but i've forgotten the name of them
anyway, i highly recommend the Dune Series
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Re: Dune - Sci-fi
mgexiled wrote:I'm sure some of you remember the old movie, the old pc games (dune, dune 2, super dune 2) dune 2 which actually started the whole rts genre. i would highly recommend the books to read. in the series there is
children of dune
dune
dune messiah
then there are the prelude books
House Atredies
House Harkonnen
House Corrino
there are others but i've forgotten the name of them
anyway, i highly recommend the Dune Series
Played the original game... a long time ago!!
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A classic Sci-Fi quadrilogy indeed.
Don't forget ‘God Emperor of Dune’, (the last in the original series)
I personally don't really care for the new-preludes. Imho, the focus more on appealing to the reader than exploring concepts and presenting ideas on human-nature. (which doesn't make them bad per-se, just not in the same class. imo...)
Also, there were two movies, the one you reference and then an el-cheapo sci-fi channel remake that failed to impress me. I would recommend the first movie, not as a faithful translation of the book, but as a better alternative to the sci-fi one.
Finally, you can get the games off of Underdogs I believe, for those who have not partaken of that part of the universe.
Don't forget ‘God Emperor of Dune’, (the last in the original series)
I personally don't really care for the new-preludes. Imho, the focus more on appealing to the reader than exploring concepts and presenting ideas on human-nature. (which doesn't make them bad per-se, just not in the same class. imo...)
Also, there were two movies, the one you reference and then an el-cheapo sci-fi channel remake that failed to impress me. I would recommend the first movie, not as a faithful translation of the book, but as a better alternative to the sci-fi one.
Finally, you can get the games off of Underdogs I believe, for those who have not partaken of that part of the universe.
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I made it through Dune (awesome book) and Children of Dune but somehow never got around to finishing Dune Messiah. I really should finish it, maybe over the summer. I really liked Dune, one of my favorite books, and the sci-fi miniseries followed it very closely. The only downside to it is it's 6 hours long ...
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I do think Dune is an excellent book, there is a compelling plot, interesting characters, excellent world-building and plenty of good science fiction concepts. Unfortunately, Dune Messiah and Children Of Dune only had those things sporadically and had increasingly contrived plotting. I didn't read any more of the books after that, but the sequels being mediocre doesn't stop the original novel being good.
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