(Wrote some stuff here about Stranger Than Fiction is an awful movie, which I do believe, but I suppose in the great scheme of things it’s quite harmless, so what’s the point. Can’t find a way to delete comments, though.)

I’m not disputing that Gibson had written “Burning Chrome” before Blade Runner (of course he had if it came out the month after), but reading it to an audience of (reportedly) four people does not mean it had gone public.

“Burning Chrome” only came out in July 1982, a month after Blade Runner. Gibson had published a couple of cyberpunk stories before the movie, including “Johnny Mnemonic,” and there are other works that are classed with the movement retrospectively, but cyberpunk wasn’t a thing yet before BR.

As Mary Pickford points out—if anything, Blade Runner borrowed much of its aesthetic from French comics published in Métal Hurlant (the original version of Heavy Metal). In particular a story by Moebius and Dan O’Bannon called “The Long Tomorrow”:

Yes, Dune is meant to be set in our future. (In the books we learn that it’s actually more like 20,000 years from now, because they reset the calendar at one point.)

Uh, the names I listed are surnames derived from place names, and none of those place names are originally derived from personal names. “Lincoln” comes from Lindum Colonia (“settlement by the pool” in Celtic-Latin), “Kent” from Celtic Cant (“borderland”), “Scott” from Scotland and ultimately from Scoti (the Latin…

Oh yeah, and one of the characters is named Duncan Idaho? Wtf is that? Is there a Lady Minneapolis later on?

You need to reread the book I think.

Yes, that quote seems to indicate that CHOAM is a commodities market/broker through which everything is traded. Elsewhere it is suggested that large parts of the income for Great Houses as well as the Emperor are funneled through CHOAM. The most accurate part of your description, I think, is that it is the economy…

The Spacing Guild is CHOAM’s merchant navy (note they have the same flag)

He may not want to do it, but if the studio wants to go on, he can’t stop them. (Though realistically, I think the chances of that are slim. They could maybe do Children of Dune. After that, any further adaptations would probably have to be about as faithful as the Foundation show.)

The way Herbert reacts when people say Paul is T E Lawrence is pretty hilarious. (Pro tip: Paul is Mohammed.)

Sorry, this will be a long one.

In the original book there is no instantaneous space travel. That was something David Lynch made up for the 1984 movie, and which Frank Herbert borrowed back into the book universe for the last two books, either as a new technology or as a retcon. (Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson have in turn adopted it for their…

I don’t think Herbert uses any “made-up words for scenery”? He borrows a few from other languages. Graben is German, erg and bled derived from Arabic, sietch Ukrainian, mesa Spanish.

I was thinking more of the thematic and moral complexity.

This strikes me as a pretty entitled attitude (it’s what most audiences outside of the US usually have to deal with), and also like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Blade Runner?

It ends right after the fight with Jamis, so a good deal after the Analog break, a little over halfway into Book II of the novel.

Asylum snagged her for their Planet Dune mockbuster. Fair dos to her for cashing in on her role in the original.