SwordMaster nailed it with the last bit there: turning a person into an animal is MAGIC. No way that can ever be science fiction.
(FH was turning a man into a giant worm, but he did it slowly and it was never described as anything but a physical, biological process of symbiosis/hybridization. Contrast that with the ugly dwarf princess Norma in the McDune fantasies who somehow rebuilds a body from the cloud of vaporized plasma that used to be her old body. There's no hint of an explanation of how that would even be possible ... no mention of plausible physical process. It's MAGIC! )
Yeah well said. Norma is the wizzard of McDune. Poof! Im a time oracle!
Also with the worm tramformation, Leto never becomes 100% worm or 100% human, something in between and also guild navigators were MUTATED through the spice gas, over time. Did FH ever even write anything about time travel or minipulating the time line... like ever?
I am a turd. Do not emulate me, or Omphalos shall mock you as well.
Against this, Leto held the multi-thread reins, balanced in his own visionlighted
view of time as multilinear and multilooped. He was the sighted man in
the universe of the blind. Only he could scatter the orderly rationale because
his father no longer held the reins. In Leto's view, a son had altered the past.
And a thought as yet undreamed in the farthest future could reflect upon the now
and move his hand. ~Children of Dune
Paul of Dune was so bad it gave me a seizure that dislocated both of my shoulders and prolapsed my anus. ~Pink Snowman
Freakzilla wrote:Against this, Leto held the multi-thread reins, balanced in his own visionlighted
view of time as multilinear and multilooped. He was the sighted man in
the universe of the blind. Only he could scatter the orderly rationale because
his father no longer held the reins. In Leto's view, a son had altered the past.
And a thought as yet undreamed in the farthest future could reflect upon the now
and move his hand. ~Children of Dune
That's a difficult one to unravel. Especially In Leto's view, a son had altered the past.
Ah English, the language where pretty much any word can have any meaning! - A Thing of Eternity
SandChigger wrote:
SwordMaster nailed it with the last bit there: turning a person into an animal is MAGIC. No way that can ever be science fiction.
Never say never ever. It isn't science, much less science fiction to ever state a universal negative.
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work - Kevin J. Anderson We think we've updated 'Dune' for a modern readership without dumbing it down.- Brian Herbert There’s an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money(energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give. - Frank Herbert