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    1. Octavo‏ @DeadGodsBook 16 Feb 2019
      Replying to @DeadGodsBook @OrionKidder and

      On the other hand, I admit I’m worried that this new Dune movie could end up looking like fascist propaganda if the filmmakers aren’t careful.

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    3. Octavo‏ @DeadGodsBook 16 Feb 2019
      Replying to @OrionKidder @RedrawingNYC and

      The scifi channel adaptation was pretty good, but that might be because it included Dune Messiah

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    5. Octavo‏ @DeadGodsBook 16 Feb 2019
      Replying to @OrionKidder @RedrawingNYC and

      Your mileage may vary on how effective it was, but in the episodes that adapted the book, they tried to illustrate his terrible purpose by having Paul see visions of chanting followers alternated with visions of his hands covered in blood while he was surrounded by corpses.

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    7. James  🌻. GIFford  😷 💉 🩹‏ @GiffordJames 16 Feb 2019
      Replying to @OrionKidder @RedrawingNYC and

      It’s really almost a requirement of the genre. If it just *said* it, there would be a much smaller audience unable to justify the creative project. It stops functioning if it can’t reach a readership/viewership that just says “cool.”

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    8. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 16 Feb 2019
      Replying to @GiffordJames @OrionKidder and

      well...there are a number of anticolonial epic sci fi novels now. N.K. Jemisin's books and Tasha Suri's Empire of Sand...it's not *that* hard. You just need to center the colonized rather than the colonizers.

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    9. James  🌻. GIFford  😷 💉 🩹‏ @GiffordJames 16 Feb 2019
      Replying to @nberlat @OrionKidder and

      How well would they have sold in 1964? Or more to the point, would a publisher of SF have tried to find out? There are probably fabulous anti-colonial SF texts that centre the colonized from the mid-century, but they weren’t made canonical by the racist, supremacist market.

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    10. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 16 Feb 2019
      Replying to @GiffordJames @OrionKidder and

      Well, the market's still pretty resistant to it! Le Guin, Delany, Russ and others were writing more sophisticated anti colonial work not that long afterwards fwiw...

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2019
      Replying to @nberlat @GiffordJames and

      I don't know if the market is the problem. Le Guin and Delany sold very, very well (Russ less so). I mean Dhalgren sold more than a million copies in its first year.

      9:55 AM - 16 Feb 2019
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        2. James  🌻. GIFford  😷 💉 🩹‏ @GiffordJames 16 Feb 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @nberlat and

          Yeah, but it’s got lashings of sex… How many of Delany’s readers went along for that part of the ride and skipped the rest? My childhood memories of Nevèvrÿon are of the butt on the cover & it being shelved beside Paul Zimmer.

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        3. James  🌻. GIFford  😷 💉 🩹‏ @GiffordJames 16 Feb 2019
          Replying to @GiffordJames @HeerJeet and

          For that matter, the films prove you can read Earthsea & miss race entirely…

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