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There was, the British SF writer E.C. Tubb published 'Pawn of the Omphalos' in 1980.

My username is a shortened version of Severance, and that's been a movie. On another forum I was Severance23, so when 23 became a movie as well I changed it to Severed - and that became a movie as well

Are we talking strictly SF here? If not, then mine would include: "Beyond the Black River" by Robert E. Howard "The Dark Eidolon" by Clark Ashton Smith "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" by H.P. Lovecraft "Shambleau" by C.L. Moore "A Sound of Thunder" by Ra...

As Roberts mentioned, nowadays he only ever sees the negatives - but he still voted for it as his favourite SF novel ever, so why is everyone slagging him off :roll: I posted some derogatory things he said about KJA over at Jacurutu a few weeks back, so he's okay in my book, even if I haven't partic...

I've loved Dead Can Dance since early 1984, and was lucky enough to see them in London in 2005 - 'Rakim' and 'Desert Song' are two more that are heavily Middle-Eastern in influence. Also from 1984, a German band called Dissidenten collaborated with several Moroccan musicians to make the album 'Sahar...

Thanks for that, Imhuien, I heard a couple of months ago, a sad loss. Great bass player, and though Japan were tagged with the New Romantic genre, they made some good stuff back in the day. 'Sons of Pioneers' still is a great favourite of mine, and here's an odd version that Mick played with Japanes...

Thanks for transcribing that whole thread AToH, it's from way before my time in Dune fandom, looks like I missed out on huge amounts of Byron stupidity. Favorite bit was when he stated his belief that a combination of 'pushing, pulling, and skipping' would get the desired effect without realising th...

From Paperback Parade #31 October 1992. The following short interview was conducted March 25th 1992 and features a look at two fine newer talents on the writing horizon. I'm proud to present: An interview with Brian Herbert and Marie Landis-Edwards conducted by Gregory L. Norris. The name Herbert is...

This one seems familiar to me as well...

Love how Keith answers the question about authors passing away in the last year to plug one of his own shitty products - classy!!

In my early 20s, I had a brief and unhappy marriage to a complete Mundane, who had no aspirations beyond working a day job, living in a tract home, and bowling on Thursdays; I could have decided to give up my dreams and stay in that dull life. I'm glad I made the right decisions, for the most part....

Page 2 KM: If it were up to me to mix and match you with a writing project for a pre-existing franchise, given the fun you had with Wells' oeuvre, I'd love to see you write a Doc Savage story. What do you think? A good pairing? KJA: I used to love Doc Savage, and it certainly would be a project rig...

http://www.sfsite.com/04b/ka222.htm This is a long one - that I bloody hope isn't already here (I did check, but...) - so long that I'll put it up in two posts. According to Kevin J. Anderson's biography section - a wittily assembled page with a scattering of hilarious author photos - at his web sit...

It's not entirely because I'm successful and famous... Gosh darn it all, why are we wasting our time and energy ripping on Keith all the time, jealousy run rampant of his success and good fortune. The guy is ABSOLUTELY FUCKING FAMOUS :angry-screaming: :angry-screaming: I suggest it's time we all gr...

I got 'Road to Dune' out from my local library 3 weeks ago, it had to go back today, I've barely had time to pick it up - the one thing I did read was this preface - and I'm bloody disgusted with the first three paragraphs: box corners were sagging, crumpled by the weight of their contents or partia...

Does it stifle my creativity as an author because I can’t, say, have jet aircraft in medieval Japan? No, I learn the rules of that universe and I set my story within those boundaries. Er, 'no-technology' in the 'House' trilogy??? and that same year my original novel, Assemblers Of Infinity (with Do...

Bloody hell, he comes over all pissy in this one, doesn't he? A couple of things made me laugh, though: Frank Herbert wrote several excellent books with Bill Ransom; Brian Herbert writes with Kevin J. Anderson. Notice the missing word 'excellent' from the second collaboration. The majority of commen...

Spanky 'n' Bobo wrote:After that we'll be working on a Butlerian Jihad trilogy... We intend to write the final book to wrap up the whole story, but we have not yet decided if we'll need to write books to set it up.

I thought their story went that the BJ trilogy 'was' the set-up for Dune 7

So, a North African holiday morphs into:

I spent some time in Morocco studying Arabic cultures, Islamic architecture, and philosophy. I stayed in Tangier, Casablanca, Marrakech, Fez, and many other historical sites.

Chronologically this must be one of the first interviews, and already Spanky shows that he doesn't get it - referring to the Bene Gesserit as witches :roll: You can't just do a new Dune book and blow it off. So what changed :?: I did my best possible work, because it says Dune on the cover. I can't ...

I enjoyed the stories for what they were: science fiction for the masses. They were fun reading and it was nice to get a glimpse of the Dune universe during its formation. They aren't (nor were they ever supposed to be) on the same level as Frank Herbert's original Dune. I mean, how could it be? Du...

I've been meaning to have a chronological bash at the Dune 7 notes, and this archive will be a huge help. Going through Keith's Dune blogs from 2005 at the moment, must be a glutton for punishment...

there's one I can't find right now, cause I'm kinda toasted, but Keith poo-poos the idea of "other writers" doing Dune stories, because they've got Brian's concordance and Dune is so complex and vast and the less experienced would have trouble keeping facts straight and end up publishing ...

D Pope just posted a link to this interview at Jacurutu - this bit jumped out at me: All of this is a roundabout defense to say that I feel I can tell just as good a story in a Dune novel as in a so-called "original" novel. One begins to develop and imagine the story within an accepted fra...

This is the only interview I've ever seen where the inner workings of the HLP is mentioned - so basically everything is Brian's fault, the rest of them sit and count the money! And, of course, there's that old chestnut preventing Byron, or any other author, contributing anything - "the tremendo...

KJA from Dune Italia interview wrote:I read DUNE when I was 11 or 12 years old, I think.

KJA from House Atreides afterword wrote:I read DUNE when I was ten years old

KJA from Byron Merritt interview wrote:I read it first when I was twelve

KJA from Writer's Write interview wrote:I read Frank Herbert's Dune when I was twelve years old.

So what is it, 10? 11? 12? Has he ever read it? He's certainly never got it.

This looks like the shoddy 1872 translation by Louis Mercier that cuts out almost a third of the original book - unfortunately it's also the one which is most widely available and read. If you look at the start of Chapter 2 Professor Aronnax writes "I had just returned from a scientific researc...

Just a quick question - why does it say Herbertian at the top of the page? I always thought the preferred word was Herbertarian, or am I missing something?

Saw this on U.K. TV a couple of months ago - complete garbage. When I found out that the big bad was actually Pinbacker I thought 'Wasn't there a Pinback in "Dark Star?"' That beachball alien from the latter film would certainly have made Sunshine more watchable.

He taught me quiet a few Britsh words. So is this a US English word or what? :P And offie , as well as being a shortened form of off-license, is also a shortened form of off-spinner - but then you have to know the game of cricket to know that one, and there's no way I'm going to explain that game t...