Star Wars Origins Frank Herberts Dune

[exatreide]

Yes I know we have all talked about it, but I stumbled upon this rather detailed and well written information, and just from skimming it pretty in depth about Herbert himself

http://moongadget.com/origins/dune.html

[gunner154]

I've encountered this website a couple of years back, though I never managed to get about reading it completely from top to bottom :-[

[Egeides]

I think it is the best written piece about Dune out there (that I've passed by). And it is actually about SW, if this tells anything ;)

[Dunenewt]

Mahdi wrote a good article about this as well.

[gunner154]

Yeah, I found the link exatreides put up when I was trying to look for Mahdi's article but didn't think about searching Fed2k itself.

[MrFlibble]

The guy who did this study deserves a definite A+ :) I'd prefer more references to sources though, especially when it comes to facts from Frank's biography.

[Khan]

The one thing I'd say about the article is that it seems to create a point, that Star Wars took a lot of ideas from Dune, and then seems to take away the poignancy of that concept. It's not a new concept in English Literature by any means, Thomas Dequincey wrote about in in the Palimpsest in fact. But it seems a tad obsessive to me to go to such lengths to prove that it takes ideas from Dune when contemporary influence is such an accepted and common occurrence in art.

[Mahdi]

Mahdi did not write a good article on this.  Mahdi wrote a piss-poor, absolutely horrid article on this that should be taken off the site.

[Dunenewt]

Found another good link here:

http://www.dahoudek.com/pages/starwarsdune.htm