I know some people say they don’t read speculative fiction because it’s “not realistic” well guess what 😜😂
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in dune all space travel relies on spice which is only found on a desert planet inhabited by fremen who start a holy war.
how far away from that are we?
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That was deliberately based on Arabs and oil.And the underdog gains the upper hand by threatening to cut off the space oil supply.
I can see they are in desperate need of freedom.
Frank Herbert totally invented all of this stuff out of thin air and didn’t have any historical precedent to work with at all.
I mean, obviously the holy war and spice was based on the Middle East and oil, but getting “fat orange pedophile god-king” right is a pretty incredible coincidence. And would be Lynch’s prediction, not Herbert’s (at least the orange part).
@Diplomjodler3 @NickEast_IndieWriter not true, the inspiration was clearly rooted in Middle Eastern culture, Islam and for “spice” read oil.
Whooosh
@Diplomjodler3 Just like no writer has ever taken any inspiration from anything that has ever happened 😁
@NickEast_IndieWriter @bookstodon @books @worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop At least he’s not trying to fool anybody with his hair.
Wait I just found out that guy is called Baron V. Harkonnen, where the V stands for Vladimir. Borderline prophecy the Dune books if you ask me, and it’s frightening. :D
Ah, so the sleeper has awakened!
@Cellari Maybe fiction is the reality and we’re just the shadow copies on the walls of the cave? 🤔 😁
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Actually most popular fiction isn’t very realistic:
Romance
Detective / Mystery
Spy
Thrillers / Adventure
Westerns (not popular now).
Non SF & F horror.
RobinsonadesA novel need not be one genre, that’s a publisher/marketing thing.
There is a spectrum between SF - fantasy - paranormal etc.
Dune and especially the early Pern novels are far more Fantasy than SF.Even a lot of autobiographies are fiction or fantasy!
@NickEast_IndieWriter @bookstodon @books @worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop You forgot to tag #horseriding #bitcoin and #golf there.
