ooli@lemmy.world to Movies@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoFrank Herbert always thought Star Wars was a Dune ripoffwww.polygon.comexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1203arrow-down114
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minus-squareooli@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down7·7 months agoAnd I dont get why Avatar from Cameron was not sued. in 1979 Herbert and Ranson wrote "The Jesus Incident ": A planet named Pandora habited by violent various beasts The human survive in a Colony and cant barrely go out, because of the wild life. The whole planet is covered by an entity protecting the planet it is named: AVATA. who comunicate with blinking light. There is a scene, where one of the main human run around the human camp folded by many monster. To survive on the planet, the human created special Clone with better reflex. The Clone were badly treated and rebelled against the Colony And Arrival by Villeneuve (or the book it pretend to be from) Is bit for bit from the novella :“Try to remember” From Herbert. Aliens try to communicate to humanity. Some woman manage to do understand their language. But some military try to smugle a bomb in the alien ship.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoDeathworld by Harry Harrison pre-dates all that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathworld
minus-squareooli@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 months agovery interresting. This might be why Avatar was so fast forgotten, it is just a mix of more interresting stories
And I dont get why Avatar from Cameron was not sued.
in 1979 Herbert and Ranson wrote "The Jesus Incident ":
A planet named Pandora habited by violent various beasts
The human survive in a Colony and cant barrely go out, because of the wild life.
The whole planet is covered by an entity protecting the planet it is named: AVATA. who comunicate with blinking light.
There is a scene, where one of the main human run around the human camp folded by many monster.
To survive on the planet, the human created special Clone with better reflex.
The Clone were badly treated and rebelled against the Colony
And Arrival by Villeneuve (or the book it pretend to be from) Is bit for bit from the novella :“Try to remember” From Herbert.
Aliens try to communicate to humanity.
Some woman manage to do understand their language.
But some military try to smugle a bomb in the alien ship.
Deathworld by Harry Harrison pre-dates all that:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathworld
very interresting. This might be why Avatar was so fast forgotten, it is just a mix of more interresting stories