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Frank Herbert on the origins of Dune (1965) [video] (youtube.com)
28 points by anotherhue 11 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I listened to this last night and found it worthwhile. I learned a few things I hadn't known before: he wrote parts of Dune in Haiku and other poetical forms, for the pacing those forms imposed, then expanded those parts into prose [1]. The magazine editor John Campbell turned down Dune Messiah because he (the editor) disliked (Herbert thought) the fact that the story explored the downsides to prognostication [2]. Herbert and the interviewer also discussed Joseph Campbell's ideas on cycles of stories.

[1] at 1:19:17 https://youtu.be/A-mLVVJkH7I?si=lMcNQJCB0dEYalIH&t=4757

[2] at 53:27 https://youtu.be/A-mLVVJkH7I?si=_Iz5-Dm9qcrHXd_H&t=3207


I highly recommend "The Maker of Dune", if you can find a copy of the book somewhere. https://www.amazon.com/Maker-Dune-Insights-Science-Fiction/d...




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