Tuesday, 21 April 2026

Arrakis And Aeneas

Reading about Mars in Poul Anderson's The Fleet Of Stars makes us think of Arrakis/Dune in Frank Herbert's Dune series and, indeed, see:

Mars And Dune

For more discussion of Dune on this blog than I had realized, and particularly for comparisons between Herbert's Dune and Anderson's Aeneas, see a blog search result for Dune here. Maybe that suffices and we can leave it at that?

Aeneas is better realized than Dune and deserves to be seen in serialized screen adaptations of The Rebel Worlds and The Day Of Their Return with some extra scenes to show the earlier lives of characters like Hugh McCormac and Ivar Frederiksen but no extended series about this planet. We do not need any Children Of Aeneas...

7 comments:

S.M. Stirling said...

Yeah, Poul's planets are more realistic than "Dune".

S.M. Stirling said...

Giant sandworms burrowing through deep sand... not very realistic.

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

Amusingly put, I was content with just reading DUNE and its first two sequels.

Ad astra! Sean

Jim Baerg said...

The end of "Children of Dune" seemed such a "Deus Ex Vermus" that I never bothered reading any of the later Dune books.

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

Exactly, and entertainingly put: Deus Ex Vermus!

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Jim, You read the best.

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Jim!

Oops! I addressed my "Deus Ex Vermus" comment to the wrong person.

Ad astra! Sean