📚 40/2021: Boogeymen by Mel Gilden ⭐️⭐️ 🖖🏻
The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS: The Oscar winning screenwriter of ‘Dune’ writes in an MS-DOS program that can only hold 40 pages in memory.
This is really clever, and I’m totally on board: What if every film Keanu Reeves has starred in is actually just Neo in another iteration of the Matrix?
The Muslimness of Dune: A Close Reading of “Appendix II: The Religion of Dune”: “Dune does not cheaply plagiarize from Muslim histories, ideas, and practices, but actively engages with them.”
Dune’s Not a White Savior Narrative. But It’s Complicated. | by Haris Durrani: “Do you think Dune is a white savior narrative? Well, you’re wrong. To accept that interpretation is to re-inscribe an account of the novel promulgated by adolescent white boys since the first of Frank Herbert’s Dune books came out in the 1960s.”
📚 39/2021: R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚 38/2021: Cooties Shot Required: There are Things You Must Know edited by Scott Gable and Caroline Dombrowski ⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚 37/2021: Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Weird edited by Scott Gable and Caroline Dombrowski ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I’ve updated my Star Trek chronological checklist to include season two of Lower Decks.
Further updates for Prodigy, Discovery, Picard, and Strange New Worlds will be added when their upcoming seasons wrap up.
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DON’T PANIC
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was first published on October 12, 1979.
42 years ago today.
Hope y’all know where your towels are, you hoopy froods.
