Acriku Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 Is DUNE series set in a different universe really? I mean just think, the history is all the same as ours, but only that this is in the future. So why do people say Dune is a whole different universe? Or is there a different meaning of universe that possibly means a world (group) of people? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemafakei Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 A universe can be used metaphorically as well as literally. But I think Dune is supposed to be our future. (hence the references to old terra, the house of Atreus, etc.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acriku Posted November 19, 2002 Author Share Posted November 19, 2002 Ok, glad that's covered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VigilVirus Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 My guess is its about 10-15 thousand years into the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inhuien Posted November 21, 2002 Share Posted November 21, 2002 I'm sure someone will ahe the facts, but I think the first books set in about 5000 years ofter the formatiom of the spacing guild. which is (I think) about 30,000 years from now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acriku Posted November 21, 2002 Author Share Posted November 21, 2002 Guys, I know when things happened, I was just wondering if it really was some parellel universe, or a metaphorically different universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inhuien Posted November 21, 2002 Share Posted November 21, 2002 Got you. Its our universe. As in this one, just later. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel_Worf Posted November 22, 2002 Share Posted November 22, 2002 As we find out in Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, Dune is our future. It's set 10,191 years After Guild, and no telling how many years happened before TBJ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quoudam72 Posted November 22, 2002 Share Posted November 22, 2002 I never thought that it was not our universe it was too simiular to ours not to be ours. I think Nema sumed it up very well in his post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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