Dune

The 'Life' section of the local paper, the Straits Times, has an article on the Singapore Writers' Festival in which they give out 'awards' of a sort. The 'Best Put-Down' award is given to Sterling.

As I mentioned in my blog entry earlier, Bruce Sterling, his fellow panelists, Robert Sawyer and Norman Spinrad and a large proportion of the audience did not think much of Frank Herbert's 'Dune', which, today, is more of a marketing phenomena, especially with the new series which is written by his son and another author.