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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Replying to @GiffordJames @HeerJeet and
For that matter, the films prove you can read Earthsea & miss race entirely…
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I don't think that was "missing race"so much as a deliberate white casting.
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That too, but how many readers actually notice? When I teach it, most students don’t, and mine are particularly primed to be attentive to those things.
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