This is the basic premise of Dune, but the story that follows is as multi-faced as it is ambitious. As Arrakis is the only place with the conditions to create spice, it is a Very Important Planet. Its chief political significance comes from the fact that the substance enables faster-than-light travel across the galaxy. Arrakis-with its harsh climate, gigantic sandworms, and understandably hostile populace known as the Fremen-is not the sort of place those from the galaxy’s noble houses are clamoring to live, but is vitally significant as the galaxy’s only source of “the spice melange.” Spice is a drug that not only extends life, but also has the potential to give its users a prophetic, multidimensional awareness.
If you’ve been living under a sand mound, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides, a young man whose parents-Duke Leto and Lady Jessica-are given stewardship of desert planet Arrakis. If you’ve never gotten around to reading the books (or if it’s been awhile since a re-read), now is the perfect time to curl up for to listen to the original story before its adaptation hits theaters and HBO Max in October-and we have a giveaway to help! Tashi Thomas reads this coming-of-age tale, set in Queens, New York, in which a group of young women of colour navigate their formative years in a world that views them as “other”.This giveaway is hosted in partnership withįrank Herbert’s Dune is one of the most popular and celebrated science fiction sagas of all time and, soon, it will be getting a modern big-budget feature film adaptation, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, and Rebecca Ferguson and directed by Denis Villeneuve. My Phantoms is available from Granta, 4 hr 52 min Further listeningĭaphne Palasi Andreades, Fourth Estate, 4 hr 26min There is much that remains unsaid between Hen and Bridget, though their tortured interactions, delivered in short, crisp sentences, tell a complex and compelling tale of familial resentment. Bridget is not without her flaws, though we come to understand her emotional withdrawal via flashbacks to her childhood in Merseyside where her domineering father tested her boundaries and, dealing with her own trauma, her mother disengaged from her children. McAlpine’s narration adeptly captures Hen’s growing neediness as well as Bridget’s alarm at her mother’s “horrible persistence”. But as she becomes increasingly frail and isolated, she desires more attention and companionship from her daughter, and is hurt when it isn’t forthcoming. After her divorce from her second husband, Hen embarks on a “programme of renewal” with a full-to-bursting social calendar of walks, talks and art exhibitions that she clearly doesn’t enjoy. Bridget does her utmost to keep her mother at arm’s length, communicating mostly via texts and emails, and meeting once a year for a tense lunch on Hen’s birthday. Read by Helen McAlpine, My Phantoms is a mordant portrait of a mother-daughter relationship in which emotions are suppressed and conversations are kept studiously light. Outsiders are rarely allowed over the threshold of her home, especially if that outsider is her mother, Hen. This is pretty much all we learn of her circumstances, since Bridget is determinedly self-sufficient and guards her domestic life with a ferocity that hints at past trauma. B ridget is a fortysomething academic who lives in London with her psychoanalyst partner, John, and their elderly rescue cat, Puss.
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