Books are made of other books: Lucas was no more stealing from Herbert than Herbert stole from Aeschylus. In the same vein, Alia’s house-Atreides-situates Dune in reference to the doomed family of the mythic Atreus, where brother murders brother, uncle murders nephew, father murders daughter, wife murders husband, and son murders mother. Dune uses words like mahdi, dar al-hikman, shaitan, jihad, and shai hulud, which are Arabic and refer back to various concepts in the history of Islam. What’s interesting about the quote is Herbert’s simultaneous inability to see distinctness despite commonality-as though Lucas’s Jawas are the same as Herbert’s Fremen-and the complete lack of acknowledgement that he himself had lifted (just as Lucas might have lifted from Dune ) details from other sources: an entire language from the Middle East, and a whole theology from Islam. He thought he saw the ideas of other science fiction writers on the screen as well, including those of Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, Ted Sturgeon, Barry Malzberg, and Jerry Pournelle.” When Dad saw the movie, he picked out sixteen points of what he called ‘absolute identity’ between his book and the movie, enough to make him livid. I phoned my father and said, ‘You’d better see it.
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The movie also had spice mines and a Dune Sea. Star Wars ’ Princess Leia had a name with a haunting similarity to Dune ’s Lady Alia of the noble house Atreides. Both featured an evil galactic empire, a desolate desert planet, hooded natives, strong religious elements, and a messianic hero with an aged mentor. “The film was shocking to me, for all the similarities between it and my father’s book, Dune. It describes the Herberts’ reaction to the release of Star Wars in 1977: There’s a moment in Dreamer of Dune -Brian Herbert’s 2003 biography of his father, science fiction author Frank Herbert-that is worth noting for the way it skirts the idea of reference in sci-fi.
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