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Dune: The Last Glimmer of American National Mythology
It’s been three years since the first “Dune” movie was released. This science fiction text, once known as the “Graveyard of the Masters,” has taken on new life in the hands of director Denis Villeneuve. After the first part gained good reputation, the highly anticipated “Dune 2” was released to the audience last week. Currently, there are more than 200,000 reviews on Douban, and the movie’s rating is stable at around 8.3 points. The “Dune” series is undoubtedly one of the highest quality Hollywood blockbusters in recent years. After the superhero era led by Marvel has shrunk rapidly, the “Dune” movie relies on the classic science fiction stories of the…
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Galactic Odyssey: Humanity’s Rise, Fall, and Triumph Across Millennia
Have you ever contemplated the distant vista of our world, envisioning its visage in millennia or tens of millennia hence? Have you ever pondered that the habitation of humankind shall transcend the terrestrial confines, extending to the infinite reaches of the Milky Way? Isaac Asimov, a luminary American science fiction savant of the mid-20th century, wove a tale set twenty millennia hence in his opus “Galactic Empire”. Its resplendent tapestry of imagination and its pulse-quickening narrative have ensnared myriad aficionados of speculative fiction, hailing it as the “Magnum Opus of Science Fiction”. It sparked the genesis of a pantheon of sci-fi opuses, such as “Star Wars” and “Three Body”. Its…
