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Edition, but we are entitled No Fair Remembering Who Won the Very First Nebula Award for Best

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We went to see the Dune 2 movie.

Yes, we did. We had a blast. But it 2 movie. Yes, we did.

We had a blast.

But it's been a minute since we did our episode comparing the adaptation of three science

fiction classics to film and television, Dune, Foundation, and Kindred.

And wouldn't you know it, that Scamp Dennyville, you went out and finished the second

half of his massive project to bring the first Dune novel to the

screen, and it has become big enough phenomena to be considered, you know, news of the capital

N. And how news is it? Well, it's news enough to warrant a long caddy review by Justin

Chang in the New Yorker. Because what kind of a world would it be without a critic harping on the, quote,

aggressively beige and brutalist version of Herbert's Cosmos, unquote?

Dismissing the movie as merely proficient, Justin Chang writes, quote,

Paul as part of his fremon assimilationilation must master the extreme sport of worm riding,

which is a bit like windsurfing, a bit like rock climbing, and a hell of a thing to witness,

tellingly, it's only in this glorious burst of spectacle, backed by the mighty surge of

Hans Zimmer's score, that Dune Part 2 rises above proficiency and flirts with transcendence, unquote.

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