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Just out of curiosity, which science fiction novels from the 1960s or 1950s do you have high regard for?
From my pov lot of science fiction gets dated more quickly and more significantly than most other forms of literature. What was futuristic in the 1960s, for instance, might now be something...
I've been reading science fiction novels for half a century, and no science fiction novel has a plausible explanation of how faster than light travel could happen, because as we know it's impossible. "Warp Drive." "Spice." Interstellar has a "wormhole." Larry Niven has a hyperdrive "shunt."...
I'm in Louisville. Turns out my friend had to drop out bc of a cold, but I got his seat for my wife instead. She's happy to be going.
I've seen the first one about half a dozen times. The first Dune movie was magnificent from my pov, and I'm looking forward to this one.
For the Dune novel series I think most readers felt there were diminishing returns. The first novel was great (or close to that), the second and third ones good, the forth and subsequent novels maybe closer to so-so.
I loved the ending of the first Dune movie. In fact, it was the best part of that whole wonderful cinematic experience of that novel I read as a teenager.