(WARNING: Contains spoilers for the ending of Dune, plot details for Dune: Messiah and the Consul’s tale in Hyperion) Postcolonialism is the study of the ongoing cultural, political and economic impact that colonialism has had on colonized regions. The books “Dune” by Frank Herbert and “Hyperion” by Dan Simmons both deal heavily with the consequencesContinue reading “Postcolonialism and Homogeneity in Science-Fiction and the Real World”