Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

We're your fan and writer hosts. I'm Blue Gow.

And I'm Drift Glass, and you can contribute

to Science Fiction University by visiting our website at science fiction university.com. There is a

Patreon button at our website, or you can mail us a letter and or contribution to Science Fiction

University, P.O. Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791. Now, this podcast, as always,

comes with a warning. This episode contains spoilers for short stories by Jack Williamson,

Ursula Legwin, Frederick Pohl, as well as a little bit of a Robert Heinleine novel entitled The Door in the Summer,

as well as Pixar's 2008 movie Wally.

We're also going to be talking about Dune and its sequels and Tim Apple's production of something

that is loosely related to Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy.

Emphasis on the loosely.

Very loosely.

Today's show comes in two parts.

First, we're going to look at a little discussed niche in science fiction, which is sometimes the theme of the story and sometimes just mentioned in passing.

The problem of abundance.

Second, we're going to do what science fiction writers do and take something happening in the

real world today and talk about what if. Today's what if question is, what if we, Drift

Class and Blue Gal, were advising Denis Villeneuve on whether or not to tackle some or all of the rest of the Dune books.

We'll also take on the question of why this particular, nearly 60-year-old novel works so well,

why it still has so many fans, and why so many people cared so much and were so anxious about the

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