From: Danny Sichel <eds7466@umoncton.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [rec.arts.sf.written] Re: Star-Wars - cheap clone of Dune?
Date: 14 Sep 1999 13:58:46 +0200

Subject: Re: Star-Wars - cheap clone of Dune?
From: jsn@concentric.net (John S. Novak, III)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written

On Mon, 09 Aug 1999 00:00:20 GMT, michael_pol@my-deja.com
<michael_pol@my-deja.com> wrote:

>I know that Dune fans will be angry with me for even comparing it to
>star-wars ,but anyway here are some points of resemblance that I  saw
>(disclaimer: I watched only the first star-wars movie, which was too
>much btw)

What the hell is it about Dune that makes certain numbers of its fans
believe that Herbert invented every single common theme in the entire
world of SF literature?

("Yeah, sand.  Herbert invented sand in SF...")