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Seattle Worldcon 2025
“Tacoma Narrows Octopus” by Ariel Popp, used with permission.

By now, almost everyone knows something about Dune, but did you know that Dune‘s author was born just south of Seattle on October 8, 1920, in the blue-collar city of Tacoma? Here are some enjoyable things to know about, or explore in, this neighbor of Seattle—including a way the city honors one of its most famous former residents, Frank Herbert.

Also known as “Grit City,” Tacoma’s name comes from the Puyallup Tribe, whose reservation encompasses much of the Port of Tacoma and part of the city itself. The area’s Indigenous communities have many names for the stratovolcano that the colonizers named Mount Rainier, one of which sounds like “Tacoma,” hence the name of the city. The Lushootseed word taqʷuʔmaʔ is often pronounced by non-Lushootseed speakers as “Tahoma” and is one of the two names suggested in the Tribe’s bid to change the federal government’s name for their mountain. Many non-Indigenous Tacomans call the mountain Tahoma out of respect for the peak itself and the ancestral caretakers of the land on which they live.

Tacoma is home to the LeMay car museum and the Museum of Glass. Near the Museum of Glass is the Chihuly Bridge of Glass, a 500-foot-long pedestrian bridge featuring three large glass installations and over 100 smaller works of glass art by Dale Chihuly, a Tacoma-born luminary. The bridge is free and open to the public 24/7 and has a great view of Tahoma’s majesty on clear days, as well as the hustle and bustle of the busy Port of Tacoma. The Port wraps around Commencement Bay, and west of the bay is Point Defiance Park and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the abode of the legendary “kraken” that Seattle’s hockey team is named after. The “kraken” in question was eventually identified as the giant Pacific octopus, a species that can be found all over Puget Sound, although underneath the Narrows Bridge is a hot spot for this cryptid-adjacent mollusk. It is recommended to limit one’s experience of the Tacoma Narrows kraken to the joy of knowledge, rather than that of personal exploration.

Nichole Rathburn’s Little Makers. Photo by Simon Berman, used with permission; thanks to Strix Publishing.

Point Defiance Park, on the other hand, is perfectly suited for enjoyment that comes from personal exploration. The park is home to a handful of attractions, like the Point Defiance Zoo and, most notably for readers of the Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow blog, Dune Peninsula. Park visitors are often delighted to see one of Puget Sound’s many orca pods in the waters offshore. Starting with the Wilson Way pedestrian bridge, the Frank Herbert Trail runs for just over a mile to and around the 11-acre Dune Peninsula. The paved trail is an easy walk bordered by embedded medallions containing quotes from Frank Herbert and Dune. Visitors to Dune Peninsula can also enjoy two large Dune-inspired metal sculptures: Alluvion by Adam Kuby and Little Makers by Nichole Rathburn.

Should you find yourself with an extra day or two in Seattle before or after the Worldcon, consider taking a quick day trip down to Tacoma, which is linked to Seattle by public transportation. A stop at Tacoma Dome Station puts you within walking distance of the LeMay, the Museum of Glass, and the Bridge of Glass. From there, a bus can take you to Point Defiance Park for the start of your scenic adventure down the Frank Herbert Trail.

[Author’s / Editor’s Note: For more information about Frank Herbert’s life and works, I strongly recommend Brian Herbert’s Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert (Tor, 2004).]

https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/12/around-seattle-tacoma-birthplace-of-frank-herbert/

The text Around Seattle against a retrofuturistic design of a rounded triangle shape with an orangey swirl pattern.
Black and white woodcut style artwork of a giant octopus with its tentacles wrapped around the Tacoma Narrows bridge.
Sculptures of sandworms going in and out of stone and dirt platforms by the water of the Puget Sound with Mt. Rainier (Tahoma) visible in the distance under blue skies on a clear day.
#DunePeninsula#FrankHerbert#Tacoma
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Seattle Worldcon 2025

Around Seattle: Tacoma: Birthplace of Frank Herbert: By now, almost everyone knows something about Dune, but did you know that Dune‘s author was born just south of Seattle on October 8, 1920, in the blue-collar city of Tacoma? Here are some enjoyable things to know about, or explore in, this neighbor of Seattle—including a way the city honors one of its most famous for… (#DunePeninsula #FrankHerbert #Tacoma #Tahoma)

Full post: seattlein2025.org/2025/03/12/a

Black and white woodcut style artwork of a giant octopus with its tentacles wrapped around the Tacoma Narrows bridge.
Sculptures of sandworms going in and out of stone and dirt platforms by the water of the Puget Sound with Mt. Rainier (Tahoma) visible in the distance under blue skies on a clear day.
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#MovieReview (well, movies):

Dune, Part One - Almost nothing happens, but there are a lot of pixels.

Dune, Part Two - For the first two thirds of the movie, nothing happens. Then in the remainder, virtually all of the character and plot development takes place during jump cuts, the story is almost completely opaque, and the thing still manages to be three hours long.

Denis Villeneuve, you should be ashamed. You knew how to tell a story and project interesting, empathetic characters in Arrival. And now this garbage.

#DenisVilleneuve#Arrival#Dune
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Toni Aittoniemi

Damian Walter’s review of Dune: Prochecy is murderous.

”Frank Herbert told us a complex story about power. And what we’ve been getting are endless, dull stories about good & evil.”

Sometimes I feel like these streaming platforms remakes of celebrated #scifi are more like the art of missing the point. 🙂

I also like his closing suggestion, that leaving a franchise alone is better. The 20 years of no Star Wars did it better than the 10 years of a lot
#dune #frankherbert
youtube.com/watch?v=nUq5AF4IMq

YouTubeit's worse than you knowBy Science Fiction with Damien Walter
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Chartrand Saint-Louis

L'apport le plus original de Frank Herbert (l’auteur de Dune)
#citation #Dune #FrankHerbert #GérardKlein #néoféodalisme #politique #pouvoir #société

« Son apport le plus original, (...), en dépit des apparences, concerne à mes yeux les manifestations du pouvoir, le long terme des sociétés humaines, la politique et le néoféodalisme multinational où nous sommes engagés. »
— G. Klein, dans Frank Herbert, La maison des Mères, Laffont, 1972, p. 553 (fichier EPUB)

La suite : des-instantanes.blogspot.com/2

des-instantanes.blogspot.comL'apport le plus original de Frank Herbert (l’auteur de Dune)
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