Dune: Fossilised spice-worm in New Mexico

Fans of Frank Herbert's 'Dune' will be surprised to see what appears to be the paleontological remains of one of the voracious spice worms of Arrakis lying about New Mexico...

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Review: Why Avatar is re-packaged Frank Herbert's Dune

The latest movie Avatar by James Cameroon has a similar story line to the Dune novel by Frank Herbert published in 1965. The movie looks more like a tribute to the great Frank Herbert than a classic movie in its own right.

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Permaculture 101 - Lessons from the novel Dune

Frank Herbert, author of Dune, used his writings to spread a spiritual and permaculture-style land revival vision in his stories of the desert planet Arrakis...In the appendix to the book, Herbert lays out Pardot Keynes grand plan for the greening of the desert Arrakis. Remarkably accurate to permaculture principles and written in 1965...

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Pierre Morel Will Direct "Dune" Remake

French filmmaker Pierre Morel, who directed the hit actioner “Taken” and the upcoming “From Paris With Love,” has signed on to helm new Paramount Pictures’ version of “Dune“, the sci-fi classic novel by Frank Herbert.

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Paramount prepares to scale Dune

Paramount Pictures has appointed Taken helmsman Pierre Morel to tackle a new cinematic adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi novel Dune, Variety reports.Paramount will work from the draft but bring in a new scribe to finish the job of breathing celluloid life into "the biggest-selling sci-fi novel" which remains "enormously popular"

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Pierre Morel will direct 'Dune' adaptation

The "Taken" helmer has a number of projects coming up, and the latest he's joined is Paramount Pictures' adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi adventure "Dune."

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Top Ten Games Made by Historical Figures: TEN and NINE

What if we could replace the likes of Bobby Kotick, the malicious CEO of Activision-Blizzard, with someone like renaissance artist Leonard Da Vinci, or the warrior-poet Bruce Lee, or those who are so often copied that the extent of their artistic contributions is often overlooked, like J.R.R. Tolkien or Dune’s Frank Herbert?

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Having Second Thoughts: Sometimes, The Less Said, The Better

"No reader interest," was the judgment of the London publisher W.H. Allen on Frederick Forsyth's first novel, The Day of the Jackal. To date it has sold eight million copies...Frank Herbert's science fiction epic Dune was rejected by 13 publishers before the Chilton Book Company accepted it. Today sales top 10 million.

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Dangerous Minds | Alejandro Jodorowsky's "Dune": An exhibiti

An exhibit opening soon at London’s Drawing Room art gallery displays the materials produced for Alejandro Jodorowsky’s sadly never-produced version of Frank Herbert’s Dune novels

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Quotes from Dune - Frank Herbert on Leadership

The original Dune is a science fiction/ecology saga (more than 6 books) written in the ’60’s and ’70’s by Frank Herbert. Dune is also a written simulation about governing (leading) an empire (organization). Dune explores cause and effect in the practice of management. Herbert’s observations on leadership are original, thought-provoking, and useful.

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