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The Winds of Dune National Tour Schedule (Updated)
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Arrakeen Sand Chigger

Arrakeen Sand Chigger In what language of what desert does "Chisra Sala Muad'Dib" mean "The Glorious Origin of Muad'Dib"? Tatooine Jawan?

November 20 at 11:29pm · Report
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Candice Kerrick
Candice Kerrick
Are you suggesting that you actually speak Chakobsa, and that Chisra Sala Muad'Dib is incorrect? That's what you're saying?
November 25 at 9:33pm
Arrakeen Sand Chigger
Arrakeen Sand Chigger
Um, Candice, the Fremen spoke a form of Arabic as their normal, everyday language. Chakobsa was what they used only in certain situations, like when Stilgar's group first finds Jessica & Paul. Chakobsa was also the basis of the Atreides battle language.

Frank Herbert took real Arabic words and sometimes altered their form or meaning or both. Like ... See MoreMuad'Dib from mu'addib "etiquette teacher", or Sareer, Leto's private desert, which actually means "bed", etc etc etc. Chisra Sala is not any form of Arabic that ANYONE recognizes.
November 27 at 8:39am
Candice Kerrick

Candice Kerrick Dune is 700 pages of pure genius! I've said that since I first read it 22 years ago at age 12 and I'll say it as long as there is breath in my lungs! Love this story in all its incarnations, truly! I haven't bought Paul of Dune or The Winds of Dune yet; waiting to see if I get a Kindle for Xmas!

November 20 at 9:44pm · Report
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November 20 at 12:14pm
Roy Stillwell
Roy Stillwell
Love his work. Thanks for sharing.
November 20 at 1:05pm
John E. DuBois
John E. DuBois
This is why FaceBook was created!
November 30 at 8:35am
Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson Hey Dune fans! Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson were kind enough to be on my online radio show this week with Anne Rice, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Orson Scott Card. Brian talked a lot about his father, Frank Herbert. Listen to the interview at http://theauthorhour.com/brian-herbert/

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November 14 at 5:51pm
Arrakeen Sand Chigger
Arrakeen Sand Chigger
Bravo, Matthew! A wonderful kid-glove technique you have! (I'm going on just the transcript at the moment, but I'll download the actual show later when I have a faster connection.) How much set up was there beforehand? Did they vet your questions? I mean, I'm sorry, but there's nothing new here; it's the same ole questions and answers we've been ... See Morehearing all this year, since well before the Winds tour in the summer. (And what's with the twenty-year-old picture of BH?) When is someone going to ask them the REAL, HARD questions?
November 15 at 1:02am
Matthew Peterson
Matthew Peterson
Well, I actually got about 40 minutes of extras that didn't air on the show. You can listen to it in the bonus section, but it's going to take FOREVER to transcribe. I only had a 12 minute segment with them on the show, so tons got cut out. I was tempted to make it a 2-part series, but I'm already backlogged on authors. Glad I made that decision as Dean Koontz and Christopher Paolini just jumped on board for the show.
November 15 at 1:12am
Alex Rappe

Alex Rappe also there should be an animated series of the butlerian jihad. Or of all the books.

November 13 at 11:45am · Report
Alex Rappe

Alex Rappe I want to know more about jessica of dune. write me

November 13 at 11:43am · Report
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Over the years, Rebecca and I have taught thousands of students in various writing workshops, and many of the attendees have gone on to become successful bestselling authors themselves.  Many of you have listened to us lecture at DragonCon or other conventions, and we’ve given our seminar o...
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Nekhrun Internetopolis
Nekhrun Internetopolis
Oh. I didn't realize that there was more to that message. Did you know it's just a link to kja's blog?. I'll just have to hope that I can read his Tweets during the conference for some freebies.
November 13 at 4:51am
Arrakeen Sand Chigger
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November 20 at 11:23pm
Stephen Court

Stephen Court Hi im a huge dune fan read neraly all the books. Still have the 3 family books to read and brought winds of dune and paul of dune last week so just started on them. Is there much need to read the family books before the others??

November 7 at 2:26pm · Report
Don Phelps
Don Phelps
Parts of Paul of Dune reference the Family Trio. IMO, read the trio first...
November 8 at 9:13pm
Hunchback Jack
Hunchback Jack
Characters from the House books also turn up in Winds of Dune. Half of that book takes place between the House books and Dune.
November 10 at 12:04am
Jeremiah Christian

Jeremiah Christian the wedding cake i'm eating in my picture. it was totally spice cake, in honor of dune. too bad there wasn't any melange, but we made due with cinnamon

November 5 at 9:29pm · Report
Chris Fellows

Chris Fellows HAs anyone here ever seen or know of a Dune Role-playing game? I think it was done by Last Unicorn Games?

November 3 at 3:35pm · Report
Hunchback Jack
Hunchback Jack
Don't know of an official one, but if you google "Dune RPG" you'll find some (apparently) fanfic ones.
November 4 at 7:13pm
Keith Davis
Keith Davis
There was an official pen and paper Dune RPG game made several years back but it didn't last very long. The only book that I know of is the core rulebook which is hard to find in hardcopy. If you do, it'll run you about 100 bucks. There is a torrent for it out there though. Not sure if this is the one you are referring to.
November 7 at 2:51pm
Hunchback Jack

Hunchback Jack I'm rereading Dune for the first time in a long while. Taking my time, too, and I'm picking up a lot of details I hadn't remembered. Even in the first part of the book, Leto's preparations for the Harkonnen attack, for the long-term relationship with the Fremen, and for Paul's inheritance of the stewardship of Arrakis,... are quite complex and nuanced. Great writing, too.

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November 3 at 12:21am · Report
Azzouz Elpaytoun

Azzouz Elpaytoun Dune deserves to have a movie as great as the ones peter jackson made for the "LORD OF THE RINGS" are the rumors about a new film in 2010 true ?

October 30 at 2:03pm · Report
Arrakeen Sand Chigger
Arrakeen Sand Chigger
Probably 2012. 2011 at the earliest.
November 1 at 1:11am
Neil Mahoney
Neil Mahoney
I truly hope that don't ruin this...agreed, a solid Dune Movie (more like 8 of them) would be the best thing ever!!
November 20 at 12:26pm
Daniel Lee Monaghan

Daniel Lee Monaghan I have an encyclopedia of Dune that was published in the early 80s and is now out of print I would like to enlist your help in trying to petition Mr Herbert and Mr Anderson in comissioning a new and updated version of this

what say you

October 29 at 2:41pm · Report