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"Dix spécialistes, scientifiques, philosophes et linguistes se penchent sur le chef-d'oeuvre de Frank Herbert et dissèquent l'un des plus grands monuments de la science-fiction mondiale. Ecologie, biologie, histoire des religions, astronomie, science politique ou chimie : de l'épice de longue vie aux fameux vers géants des sables, des mystères des Fremen aux arcanes de l'ordre féminin du Bène Gesserit en passant par les pouvoirs de la Voix, DUNE révèle ses secrets sous le prisme de la science !"

Science-fiction américaine. --- Sciences --- Vulgarisation. --- Herbert, Frank (1920-1986). --- Authors, American --- Science fiction, American --- Herbert, Frank.

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Frank Herbert’s »Dune« (1965) is considered to be one of the most successful Science Fiction novels of the 20th century. It introduces its readers to a future universe, in which the production of the most valuable resource of the universe – ›spice‹ – is only possible on one vast desert planet called Arrakis. »Dune« offers many different motifs, including a hero that eventually turns into a superhuman being. However, the novel is also rich of orientalist semiotics and relates to a sign system existent when Herbert wrote his book. Frank Jacob discusses these semiotics in detail and shows how much of »Lawrence of Arabia« is present in the story’s plot.

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This book undertakes the first large-scale analysis of women’s agency in Frank Herbert’s six-book science fiction Dune series. Kara Kennedy explores how female characters in the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood—from Jessica to Darwi Odrade—secure control and influence through five avenues of embodied agency: mind-body synergy, reproduction and motherhood, voices, education and memory, and sexuality. She also discusses constraints on their agency, tensions between individual and collective action, and comparisons with other characters including the Mentats, Bene Tleilaxu, and Honored Matres. The book engages with second-wave feminist theories and historical issues to highlight how the series anticipated and paralleled developments in the women’s liberation movement. In this context, it addresses issues regarding sexual difference and solidarity, as well as women’s demand to have control over their bodies. Kennedy concludes that the series should be acknowledged as a significant contribution to the genre as part of both New Wave and feminist science fiction. Kara Kennedy is a researcher, writer, and educator in the areas of science fiction, digital literacy, and writing. She is an avid scholar of Dune who has lectured and published on various topics including world-building. She posts literary analyses of Dune for a mainstream audience on her blog DuneScholar.com.

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