DUNE DISCUSSION FORUM FOR ORTHODOX HERBERTARIANS
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I just had to add this.2001, 14evin wrote:I am currently editing the first volume in a "completely original" science fiction epic, The Saga of Seven
Suns, while simultaneously polishing the first volume in a new Dune prequel trilogy with Brian Herbert,
The Butlerian Jihad. I leave it to the readers of this interview to compare those two works and see if they
can discern any noticeable difference in quality.
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Ampoliros wrote:Yeah well with his understanding of space travel I think he squeaked by with a bunch of c's.
Faster than light rockets and railways in space? Radio signals crossing an entire galaxy, let alone a universe in 10,000 years? I don't have a BA in astrophysics, and I know that doesn't work.
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Wait, I missed this...
Not only do solar sails not function in an atmosphere, they would be counterproductive.
14evin wrote:I have degrees in physics and astronomy and spent over ten
years writing technical papers and presentations for a research laboratory, so I would have to say that
scientific accuracy (or at least "likelihood") is important to me.
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Oh, that's a good one... McDune was enough for me.14evin wrote: I leave it to the readers of this interview to compare those two works and see if they
can discern any noticeable difference in quality.