^ Heh. <lecherous grin> "C'mon, honey... the veil is just a symbolic denial of your base urges. You know you want to, don't you?"
I remember reading it in either the full book form or as the serial and not finishing it. About that time plus or minus 5 years or more, "hard-nosed" science fiction was blending too much with science fantasy, and I began to totally lose interest in the genre and incidentally, movies in general. I preferred S-F where there was at least some touching base with physical principles --even if stretched a bit --like in the seetee series. E.g. at least there was a glossy description of how contraterraine materials were handled. I loved the magnetized iron CT bar suspended in an oppositely-magnetized shell casing as an explosive projectile. Far-fetched (at least with the magnetic materials of the day), but at least some forehead-kissing basis in physical materials and principles.
I could "suspend reality" that far.
But pretty much beyond that, science fiction-fantasy became more like reading Jack and the Beanstalk and other fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
I know you pity me for "not having any imaginaiton," but I pity you for pitying me.
Movies? Well, except for teenaged necking, I never really liked the theatre experience and never paid much attention to the Hollywood "thing." I went to see "Sand Pebbles" because I loved the book so much and Wife1 and I saw the E.T. movie with my older son, but that was obligatory. Going to the theater in general? Meh. So I never paid attention to anything related to Dune.
Well, 'nuffa that. But this is not an apology.
Terry, 230RN
