Melange means mix or blend. Melanger is the verb, meaning mixing.
Just like masala.
Ah oooh. Didn't see that before.
Which is ironic given the very much in your face apology to eugenics.
what do you mean nobody talks about it? they call it "the spice melange" all the time so even if you have no concept of French you know that it's being called a spice.
Why does no one talk about this?
Idk, because it's not that interesting
omelette du fromage
A spice mix is the life.
I think about it all the time, actually
Maybe because it's too obvious?
Dune "cycle"? Is that what people are calling it? Like its an impactful series sure but has Herbert really reached the level of Homer?
Or is there some other reason?
Maybe OP is francophone, in French almost any series of books is called a cycle.
Yeah, gate keeping arbitrary terms for a set of books like some are somehow higher quality than others is weird lol.
The Inheritance Cycle uses the same word, and I don't think that has anything to do with "impactfulness." What, to you, does it mean for books to be part of a Cycle? I thought it was another word for "series" tbh
I looked it up, a cycle refers to disconnected body of works that cover the same event such as the siege of Troy. A series refers to a linear body of works that cover different events, such as Dune and most other modern books.
So ya everyone downvoting me is straight up wrong. The op was wrong, and also I was wrong. Go figure.
