Dune Series Ph.D Episodes 5.1: Conclusions and 5.2: Recommendations (Frank Herbert's Dune Series)
Channel: Doc Sloan's Science Fiction Station
Date: 2021-03-29

Our final episode, and what a journey! It's time to bring this visit to Arrakis to an end. We think this is the first time ever that a Ph.D. of this size and scope has been presented in its complete entirety, with every single reference and footnote, in an audio-visual medium such as these videos on a new media platform like YouTube.

We might be wrong, and if so all well and good, and there has been nothing but a positive process in doing this. We've convinced people to read or listen to new books outside of their experience, and therein lies our true goal. To open your mind and educate and get you to ask questions, not necessarily to agree with me. About what? Well Frank Herbert, the Dune Series, and hopefully science fiction as not only a body of literature, but as a body of ideas. 

And maybe, just maybe in our own modest way, we think these videos have made history. 

They may change (we hope) the way people think about publishing Ph.D. theses, and in turn make them more accessible and understandable to all, without having to pay for access to material like this.

So this is it. An entire (rather large) Ph.D. for you, the Dune fans. Free! On YouTube! For the first time ever?

I'd love to know what you think about this work, and I sincerely hope I've been able to present this in an accessible way to fans of this series who span several generations, and are spread out all over this planet in many nationalities and cultures. (Best regards to you all!)

I hope to try to improve this soon with subtitles etc to make it more accessible.

We'll be knitting together the episodes into chapters for a more easier listening version soon.

Thank you all so much for watching. It has been a privilege and a pleasure.

I'll hopefully see you in the cinema for the release of Denis Villeneuve's Dune in 2021. Look after yourselves.

Doc Sloan
(Setting my mind in motion by will alone)

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