Dune- Book Trailer

If it doesn't work, here is a link to the version I put on youtube

This is a book trailer I made for Dune

Note #3

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality....

    In The Chariot, Emily Dickinson expounds upon the process of death and what she thinks life after death will hold. Her light, almost conversational tone portrays death as an old friend, rather than the harbinger of pain and evil. Dickinson's informality with death gives a sense of nostalgic familiarity that  can only be achieved after a lifetime of friendship. Dickinson's impression of Immortality is starkly different from that of many other poets who believe that death will be relief, she implies death as only a stepping stone in her soul's travels.

Note #2

This is supposed to be a video^, if not Here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-NrvnoD8zE
      In this avant-garde scene from the movie Quiet Earth, Zach Hobson, the mentally distraught protagonist, has just discovered that he is not only the last man alive on earth, but also the man responsible for the end of humanity.
      Director Geoff Murphy underscores the depravity of Hobson's mental condition by having him dressed in a woman's silk nightgown, sitting with a shotgun across his lap, watching a recording of a Cold War newscast. Suddenly becoming enraged by the anchorman's speech, Hobson yells at and shoots the TV as if he is attempting to escape his guilt by destroying all evidence of it. Proclaiming himself ruler of Quiet Earth, Hobson then tries to explain himself in his inaugural address to a distinguished crowd of cardboard cut-outs, forcing them to cheer in agreement with an array of recordings that he set up amongst them.
      In the course of his speech, Hobson visibly displays strain under the weight of 5 billion souls. Though he did not intentionally destroy the human race, he was fully aware of the potential evil that could be done by his work. He ignores his conscience, which screams warning, in order to indulge in the resulting status and power. He knowingly turns over power that no man should wield to "mad-men". He falls victim to the human tendency to abandon ones own virtues in inexpedient attempts at immortality, thus he is the one that is "commended to live".
   While The Quiet Earth does not actually involve immortality directly, the themes of the corruptibility of man and man's avaricious desire to become his own God are concurrent and serve to teach man kind that the scientific path to immortality will have no short-cuts.

Immortality Vs Mortality Movie

Quiet Earth
http://youtu.be/qeg6C2Q5QTI?t=2m31s

Foundation- Asimov

    Isaac Asimov is one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, producing close to five-hundred stories from 1950 to 1991. His works include I. Robot, the Gods Themselves and countless other best sellers. His Foundation series, which began as a trilogy and was later expanded to contain six books, was the most widely read space epic for decades.
           Foundation, the first book that Asimov wrote in the Foundation series, focuses on the legacy of Harry Seldon, a mathematician who has discovered a way to predict the future. It is a new science that he calls "psycho-history" that involves crowd psychology and certain indexes that represent different aspects of humanity to mathematically predict significant social, political and economic events. When the Galactic Empire collapses, Seldon's Foundation (and its twin on the other side of the galaxy) is the only remaining stronghold of scientific progress.
         Asimov's choice to shy away from a character driven storyline, along with his signature writing style are the just some of the reasons that this book so successful. The sheer immensity of the universe that he creates evokes a childish sense of wonder with each turn of the page, leaving you utterly convinced that a tiny speck on the edge of the galaxy could be so important.