#frank herbert

[askyea-poesy]

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

Frank Herbert

[estellaestella]

Arrakis ... is forever his place

DUNE starts with an excerpt from a book Irulan will write later on. Quotes from her books are frequently featured as epigraphs to most chapters. (Narration taken from the audiobook for DUNE.)

[thestarlightforge]

CRYING 💀

(credit: my sister 😂)

[animentality]

[handlesans]

[nalyra-dreaming]

Reading Dune - I really wished they’d left that in the movie(s)… what a prediction:

[thoughtswithfinn]

the desert mouse - maud’dib

paul wanting to be called “little desert mouse” and then committing heinous crimes will never not be funny to me

[hannahelatham]

"What terrible things we do to those we love" - Frank Herbert, Dune

prints are available here

[the-gom-jabbar]

The whole genetics project of the Bene Gesserit may have been dubbed a failure because Paul wasn't a girl but there was nothing stopping Paul and Feyd-Ruatha acting on that sexual tension they had in both book and film.

Paul could have taken Feyd as a third Consort. Just imagine Paul with his Empress Irulan and his wife Chani sitting at his side and Feyd just sprawled on the dais steps just wearing something scandalous like

You were right Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, wasted potential.

[artofmaquenda]

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Dune

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Little detail I loved in Dune Part Two was Irulan recoding her notes on a futuristic phonograph cylinder because the AIs fucked things up so badly the entire human race is now fanatically opposed to anything as advanced as a calculator.

[humanoidhistory]

Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert, 1972 edition, with cover by Bruce Pennington.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

On the set of Dune (1983)

[goingonanadventuremaybe]

I love how in Dune part 2, they made Chani literally the voice of Franks Herbert, deeply suspicious of governments, charismatic leaders and organized religion and prophecy, she has to watch all that she feared would shackle her people come to bind them with the chains held by the very person she trusted and loved and who promised her he didn't want to be a leader, and then a bunch of guts on the Internet call Chani, "a stuck up, pouting, over dramatic teen," Sir, that is your author avatar.

[animentality]

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H.R. Giger, Harkonnen CAPO chair, 1981. Aluminum, 78 x 32 x 32 inches. Courtesy Lomex Gallery. Photo: Chris Stein