Video DUNE author Frank Herbert: "My Arab friends wonder why it's called science fiction."

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DUNE author Frank Herbert: "My Arab friends wonder why it's called science fiction."

Filmed circa 1984, shortly before Herbert's death in 1986. Aired on PBS in 1987. Herbert opens by saying: "Well, my Arab friends wonder why it's called science fiction. DUNE, they say, is religious commentary... My own view of it is, 'Okay, we call it science fiction.'... I don't care what they call it."