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WHAT IS SURVIVAL IF YOU DO NOT SURVIVE WHOLE?… WHAT IF YOU NO LONGER HEAR THE MUSIC OF LIFE? MEMORIES ARE NOT ENOUGH UNLESS THEY CALL YOU TO NOBLE PURPOSE! –Leto II, Heretics of Dune Adapted from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)#/media/File:Dune-Frank_Herbert_(1965)_First_edition.jpg Since its 1965 publication, Frank Herbert’s Dune has been adapted across a wide range of media to varying degrees of success. With part one of Denis Villeneuve’s new adaptation in the cinemas, there’s been a lot of reflection on the previous attempts to bring Herbert’s magnum opus to the big screen. David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation for the big screen and John Harrison’s 2000 miniseries for the Sci-Fi Chanel both failed to capture the grandeur and breadth of the original novel in different ways, and Jodorowsky’s ambitious but doomed attempt to film the novel in the 1970s has become the stuff of legend. Dune has also had many game adaptations, from card games and board games to RPGs t...

    Ariadne ’ s Thread Anthology CFP for Vol I bacchanal / ˈ bak ə n( ə )l/ / ˈ bak ə nal/ 1. A wild and drunken celebration. 2. A priest, worshipper, or follower of Bacchus. Four-walls-bound, we flourish, in isolation, together. Consider this an invitation to the Dance. A Revel. A Reveille. Bacchanal. Send us your wyrdest words, your lustiest poems, your stories that sing of joy ’ s apex. Tell us about you, and all your lives, myriad; embody the Bacchanal, just as the word contains both bonfire and the dancing sparks within. The details:  We will accept essays/articles, poetry, short stories, or any way you choose to answer the call. How does your recent reading or research align with the above? How can you read bacchanal into the world around you, within you?  Deadline for submissions is 31st December 2021.  All submissions must be the original, previously unpublished, work of the author.   Submissions should be between 2000-6000 words long (not including...