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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2021

      1. You see people saying "Dune" is a "Star Wars" rip-off and the first impulse is just to laugh b/c of course the novel Dune predates Star Wars & influenced it etc. But there's a larger thing at work, which is the shared universe of the science fiction genre.pic.twitter.com/Deh1spqhoL

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2021

      2. One of the interesting features of science fiction is the way concepts in it are shared. Not unlike scientific discoveries, once a writer comes up with a great idea, it gets added to common storehouse of the genre & built on: robots, time travel, galactic empires.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2021

      3. The idea of the "rip off" is the language of fandom & intellectual property lawyers, within science fiction writing community, it's recognized that writers work by sharing and adding to the storehouse of ideas.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2021

      4. A specific example: from early on (in works like John Carter) s.f. writers loved the image of sword fights in futuristic or alien environments. But this made no sense: if you had laser ray guns, why use swords? In 1949, Charles Harness had the solution.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2021

      5. Harness was a run-of-the-mill schlock pulpsmith but in 1949 story he posited that in future with force fields, swords would be useful because they could be slow enough to penetrate at close range, unlike lasers. This became standard solution, used in many works like Dune.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2021

          6. Aside from Harness' forcefields/swords solution, Dune also borrow heavily from Cordwainer Smith (desert planet, navigators) & is a real melange of other sources (Lawrence of Arabia, counterinsurgency manuels, Quileute folkways, the Koran, etc).

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2021

          7. The biggest commonality Star Wars has with Dune is that it's also a synthesizing work, a bricolage of many sources (Dune but also Flash Gordon, Hidden Fortress, westerns, war movies, 1930s serials, etc).

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Oct 2021

          8. @DavidKlion & I talk about the myriad sources of Dune, the way its the culmination of many cultural strands, in this podcast:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-the-dune-abides?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= …

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        1. Steven Scott‏ @scottstev 29 Oct 2021
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          "Forever War" used it too.

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        1. Altweltaffe‏ @altweltaffe 29 Oct 2021
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          Seems that because it's SCIENCE fiction, the (pseudo-)explanations for in-universe mechanisms can be borrowed without being jarring to the reader, while borrowing eg a magic system will seem like copying, because there is no pretense of objectivity.

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        1. A. K. Boo‏ @AKKABlue 29 Oct 2021
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          Harness was a sophisticated outsider like Cordwainer Smith or James Tiptree Jr. He published very little until he retired (from being a patent attorney) in the early eighties but his work was hugely influential on other writers. See Damon Knight's In Search of Wonder.

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