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The first logical answer would be from his arse, them being a steaming pile of dung, but I just finished Dune and was browsing through the Appendix when I encountered a few things that might give some insight as to how the hack's mind work.

My copy of Dune

APPENDIX II The Religion of Dune p.579 wrote:Did God not give us Shaitan(Iblis, Satan) ?

So that's where he got the name for his idiotic Iblis Gingo(can't remember how it's spelled though, which in a way is good)?

The word "Iblis" may be derived from the Arabic verbal root balasa بَلَسَ, meaning "he despaired"; therefore, the linguistic meaning of Iblis would be "he/it that causes despair"

He probably thinks he's super smart, with the "he/it that causes despair" part, but unless that bloke changed his name after he brought dispair and shit, that would mean his parents were actually prescient lol

Anyway I doubt it's a coincidence...

(it seems we're getting more insight into the reality of the fabled notes no?)

Edit
I typed more but my bastard mouse pad erased my post when my hand just brushed over it... I mean how is it possible to do that on purpose? I tried and failed, I think windows is programmed by Gremlins

"Ideas"? I'd rather say he randomly picks things from the original books and stuffs them into contexts of his own making, twisting then beyond all recognition in the process.

exactly but one word that's really taking the piss !

what a cunt!

what an obnoxious cock sucking cunt!

Star Wars, Iron Man, Twilight...

He's a copymeister, all of his ideas are lifted from one place or another. I can't think of one thing in any of the crap of his I've read that was purely original. He does however have the interesting ability to take a very dumb idea and make it worse i.e. Sun Crusher. In that ability he stands alone.

KJA would make a great scriptwriter for Michael Bay.

So that's the justification for the fucking spell casters huh?

Message for Mr Dumbfuck
it is a reinterpretation of Genesis; that means it is a parabole!!

In rhetoric, a comparison; specifically, a simile, especially a formal simile, as in poetry or poetic prose, taken from a present or imagined object or event: distinguished from a paradigm, or comparison with a real past event.

It is not for real you moron...

There is no magic in Dune, never has been never will be...

Ampoliros wrote:Star Wars, Iron Man, Twilight...

He's a copymeister, all of his ideas are lifted from one place or another. I can't think of one thing in any of the crap of his I've read that was purely original. He does however have the interesting ability to take a very dumb idea and make it worse i.e. Sun Crusher. In that ability he stands alone.

KJA would make a great scriptwriter for Michael Bay.

^ yeah, that ^

Ampoliros wrote:Star Wars, Iron Man, Twilight...

Terminator, X-Files, Babylon 5 ...

Then, just take something from the franchise you're raping and make it bigger. Construct an entire 300-page novel around that one fact. Cash paycheck.

TheDukester wrote:

Ampoliros wrote:Star Wars, Iron Man, Twilight...

Terminator, X-Files, Babylon 5 ...

Count Iblis was Patrick McNee's character from the original BSG.

wow I'd forgotten about that!

DuneFishUK wrote: Count Iblis was Patrick McNee's character from the original BSG.

There is also Garm Bel Iblis from the Star Wars novels.

He blatantly lifted Asimov's Nightfall for his Seven Suns.

Freakzilla wrote:He blatantly lifted Asimov's Nightfall for his Seven Suns.

did he?
fucking hell the man has no shame hasn't he?

do you have some reference for that?

lotek wrote:

Freakzilla wrote:He blatantly lifted Asimov's Nightfall for his Seven Suns.

did he?
fucking hell the man has no shame hasn't he?

do you have some reference for that?

Just that I read Nightfall and was told about Seven Suns. In Nightfall, the planet had several suns and there was no night except for every few thousand years.

Freakzilla wrote:

lotek wrote:

Freakzilla wrote:He blatantly lifted Asimov's Nightfall for his Seven Suns.

did he?
fucking hell the man has no shame hasn't he?

do you have some reference for that?

Just that I read Nightfall and was told about Seven Suns. In Nightfall, the planet had several suns and there was no night except for every few thousand years.

yeah i read Nightfall, both the short story and the novel with Robert Silverberg and I found them both good at the time(I was just kind of bothered that having the crazy cultists be the saviours of humanity looked a bt too much like... well our present day cultist rants) but it was a good read.

I never really checked anything else from the JAcKet but the coincidence is... well it can't be one can it?

The worse part is that anyone with a bit of intellectual honesty would probably admit borrowing the idea as a homage to someone who inspired you, but I seriously doubt JAKie would admit that

What? He's always admitting when someone else took inspiration from his work!

TheDukester wrote:Then, just take something from the franchise you're raping and make it bigger. Construct an entire 300-page novel around that one fact. Cash paycheck.

It doesn't have to be bigger, per se. It just has to be Ultra. Which is really easy because you just add "Ultra-" to the beginning of anything that it does. Why didn't he just lift something from South Park and call it "Hella-"? At least that would be funny.

Ampoliros wrote:What? He's always admitting when someone else took inspiration from his work!

as much as it costs his natural modesty I think he owes that to his idio.. fans

Freakzilla wrote:

lotek wrote:

Freakzilla wrote:He blatantly lifted Asimov's Nightfall for his Seven Suns.

did he?
fucking hell the man has no shame hasn't he?

do you have some reference for that?

Just that I read Nightfall and was told about Seven Suns. In Nightfall, the planet had several suns and there was no night except for every few thousand years.

Wouldn't everyone melt from all that heat? Or at least have really bad skin?

they're probably Australians

lotek wrote:they're probably Australians

Protected from the heat by their mullets and the power of Kylie Minogue.

chanilover wrote:

lotek wrote:they're probably Australians

Protected from the heat by their mullets and the power of Kylie Minogue.

and the fact that most of them already have some form of cancer, either from the sun or from the bbqs(or both at the same time)

(I love u Aussies, make fun of the French or the Irish all you like and I'll laugh with you, not at you )

chanilover wrote:Protected from the heat by their mullets and the power of Kylie Minogue.

And the ice cream they smear all over their bodies.

SandChigger wrote:

chanilover wrote:Protected from the heat by their mullets and the power of Kylie Minogue.

And the ice cream they smear all over their bodies.

That's only one Austrailian in particular.

Sorry to hijack the ice cream imagery but my brain closed a couple circuits and I finally remembered why the hunting mites from one of the prequels was familiar:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Langoliers

Stephen King adaptation of some viscious miniature flying eaters. It was a terrible movie, and now made even worse because it was shoe-horned into the Duniverse.

A Little Galach wrote:Sorry to hijack the ice cream imagery but my brain closed a couple circuits and I finally remembered why the hunting mites from one of the prequels was familiar:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Langoliers

Stephen King adaptation of some viscious miniature flying eaters. It was a terrible movie, and now made even worse because it was shoe-horned into the Duniverse.

kja is the Carlos Mencia of Science Fiction. Steals shitty ideas and makes them worse.

Nekhrun wrote:

A Little Galach wrote:Sorry to hijack the ice cream imagery but my brain closed a couple circuits and I finally remembered why the hunting mites from one of the prequels was familiar:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Langoliers

Stephen King adaptation of some viscious miniature flying eaters. It was a terrible movie, and now made even worse because it was shoe-horned into the Duniverse.

kja is the Carlos Mencia of Science Fiction. Steals shitty ideas and makes them worse.

He's a ninja of bad.