On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:25:20 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

snipped with finesse

I'll respectfully disagree with you on this. Dune was an excellent
read, and I suspect that it's awards and accolades weren't rendered
for it's unreadability and lack of quality.

Bullfeathers as my maternal Grandfather used to say in polite company.

It was a piece of pandering ecological pseudo-intellectual pablum
which massaged the collective sensitivities of fellow authors who felt
they were being left behind in the area of "Great Thoughts". It was a
watershed moment for scifi and the genre hasn't been the same since
because scifi had been the realm of hardcore "geeks and freaks" as
Martin Greenberg once said. "Dune" showed them the way to be obtuse
as some of the more social commentary type mainstream novels - it was
a way to move to the mainstream.

Hell, just to show you how bad it was, it was rejected something like
25 times by every major scifi house - it's was first published by
Chilton - you know the people who make automobile repair books and
auto parts manuals?

It was never a best seller until David Lynch made the movie in 1984.

Rubbish - pure and simple. :)

I certainly respect your opinion. I think, though, that we may look
at the genre through different eye-glasses. If there were a purist's
creed for sci-fi buffs, I was never aware of it. For me, reading
sci-fi was simply entertainment. It was something that titillated my
youthful imagination. I was compelled by the more intellectual works;
but, in a more philosophical and ontological fashion, as primal as
those things were for me back then. And in all honesty, it may very
well be that if I read "Dune" today, I may have a much different
perspective of the book, having more tempered and matured
sensibilities through which to synthesize it. I did become
increasingly disenchanted with the genre over time.

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