Tag: Frank Herbert

  • Friday’s Findings

    Friday’s Findings

    He who controls the spice, controls the universe. Frank Herbert, Dune And he who controls the movie rights to Dune controls how people perceive the novel. Dune continues to be my favorite science fiction novel since my teen years. It’s been made for the screen three times so far: Dune (1984), Dune mini-series (2000), and…

  • Dune: The Book That Made Me Love Reading

    Dune: The Book That Made Me Love Reading

    Loved this book since I was in high school, and I’ve read it several times over the years. Looking forward to this latest movie incarnation.

  • Rereading A Book: Why You Should do It

    Rereading A Book: Why You Should do It

    Ah, the magic of revisiting a book I read long ago … This past weekend I finished reading Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep for the third or fourth time since the 1990s. Each time, I had forgotten just enough by each reread that I enjoy it as much as the first time. In…

  • A point of view on first person point of view

    Well into a draft of my novel I realized I suffered from info-dump-itis. I know better than to do this, but I had such a great world I had created and felt the need to cram it down the reader’s throat. Every scene told the story from a different character’s viewpoint in third person. As…