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Frank Herbert always thought Star Wars was a Dune ripoff

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Frank Herbert always thought Star Wars was a Dune ripoff

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Movies@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

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At least Herbert got his revenge with one of the best and pettiest burns in all of sci-fi literature

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I was never a giant fan of the Lensmen books, but there’s a lot of Doc Smith’s story in Star Wars.

A multi species police force with telepathic powers and a symbol known and respected on all worlds?

For the uninitiated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lensman_series

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