Movies@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Frank Herbert always thought Star Wars was a Dune ripoff

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Frank Herbert always thought Star Wars was a Dune ripoff

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At least Herbert got his revenge with one of the best and pettiest burns in all of sci-fi literature

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Yeah, and wasn’t even written by Frank.
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  And also fucking suck. the story is bad and the writing is downright young adult dystopia novel in quality.

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