There's an interesting discussion going on at Matthew Yglesias's site - http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/12/the-racial-politics-of-dune-and-avata

There's an interesting discussion going on at Matthew Yglesias's site - http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/12/the-racial-politics-of-dune-and-avatar.php http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/12/the-racia... While his short summary of Avatar is pretty far off the mark, I thought the comparison to Dune was pretty on-point. The comments are also worth reading.