I had a shower thought last night that it would be cool if Dune or some of those older classics had a modern ramake applied across the books to revamp them and update them with what we know now in terms of technology, our ability to imagine and make the style of writing more palatable to younger/new audiences.

I had a couple of friends try read the dune books and said they really struggled with the style of writing and English.

Is this a dumb thought lol

  • bloodyell76@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    A while back I read Gilgamesh the King, which is a rewrite by Robert Silverberg of the Epic of Gilgamesh. So yes this sort of thing has been done.

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    Now, something like Dune would still be under copyright, and so you couldn’t just do this, at least not without permission from the author or his estate. Something Silverberg definitely didn’t have a problem with.