Archive for June, 2011

Good Reading – Legends of Dune: The Butlerian Jihad

Posted: 20th June 2011 by Ondrej Dyrka in Good Reading
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The world of Dune has many secrets and weird issues. Have you ever wondered why humanity used mentats instead of computers, why were the Atreides and the Harkonnen mortal enemies or perhaps where did Bene Gesserit come from? Some answers are left to your imagination, but others have been thoroughly investigated by Brian Herbert and [...]

Good Reading – Legends of Dune: The Background

Posted: 16th June 2011 by Ondrej Dyrka in Good Reading
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Dune by Frank Herbert is established worldwide as one of the best sci-fi books out there. Terms like Arrakis, Spice Melange, Fremen or spice worms are famous and I have to say that I personally love this particular fictional world. However, Dune is just the main book, there are many others set before or after [...]

Good Reading – Short Fiction by Neil Gaiman

Posted: 10th June 2011 by JPMoral in Good Reading
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Good day fellow book lovers!  First of all I’d like to thank Ondrej for letting me do this guest post about some of Neil Gaiman’s short story anthologies. Neil Gaiman is my favorite author.  It started when my sister brought home a Sandman comic book when I was 13 or 14.  From then on I’ve [...]