SandChigger | March 21, 2011
Drew, who has been commenting on some of the posts here lately, has published his review of Hunters of Dune on GoodReads. Have a look at the “reading progress” posts at the bottom first. (And if you happen to be a Blur fan, have a look at his blog here, too.) Addendum: Drew is currently [...]
SandChigger | January 5, 2011
OK, it’s been, what, three years now since the publication of Sandworms of Dune? And they’ve yet to produce any credible evidence backing up the claim that Hunters and Sandworms were based on an outline found on floppies in two safety deposit boxes. I’ve added a new page in the Miscellaneous Topics section of the [...]
SandChigger | April 30, 2008
I just happened upon a “review” of Grunters (can we say “old news”?), written by “author” Matthew Tait, that adds new dimensions to the word clueless. Here’s a sample, to give you an idea of what I mean: The opponent that humanity believed to be long extinct has reappeared from the edge of the Universe [...]
SandChigger | November 21, 2007
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SandChigger | December 16, 2006
So, just in case you didn’t reread (or ever read) the last of the originals, these four “epi-epigraphs by way of prologue” (my title, since none is given for them) remind you of (or fill you in on) a few of the important details. Let’s look at each in turn. GUILD BANK RECORDS, GAMMU BRANCH [...]
SandChigger | December 16, 2006
I don’t have much to say about the Acknowledgements, except to note that this section may answer, for the careful reader, that oft-asked question “Who exactly are the members of the Herbert Limited Parnership?” And to simply point out in passing my concern over why a third party (Dr. Attila Torkos) had to be relied [...]
SandChigger | December 11, 2006
Here is the Table of Contents for Part I of Hunters, indicating initial page number and my abbreviations for the sections. The text associated with each division is composed of a snippet each from (1) the epigraph (in italics) for the section and (2) the main text (first three words capitalized), or just the main [...]
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"Blue ... it's the new Green!" "Master of Universes" KJA Arabic language in Dune Arrakeen is dead Avatar Book tour Brian "Man of Mystery" Herbert Brian Tyler Bug Score Chisra Sala Muad'Dib disrespect for Arabs Dune 201? For The Lose! Dune Encyclopedia Dune Etymologies DuneNovels Twitter Twits Dune on Facebook Facebook Group The Dune Saga Facebook Official Dune Flaming lexicality: Wordfire! Fremen Language Fremen language abuse Harriet Klausner is a fake Heroes of Dumb Kantele is Hypatia KJA is full of shit KJASF Mad Cow Dis-Ease McDune fans are dumbfucks Nebula awards New Arrakeen sucks Peter Berg is a moron plagiarism Prescient predictions come true RFA Shameless Shillage SMELLHOLE Spielberg SuperBores Writing Seminar Tales from the Access Logs The Sisterhood of Dune The Twat on Twitter The Usual Idiots The Winds of Dune Twat Twits Woof Woot!
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