If you ’re fascinated by Frank Herbert ’s Dune novels , you ’ll emphatically want to read Scott Timberg ’s previous clause in the Los Angeles Times , chronicle the leger ’s origins and bequest . Plus there ’s great commentary from Kim Stanley Robinson .
Timberg spell :
The novel was sparked when , in the former fifties , Herbert flew to Florence , Ore. , in a low chartered plane to indite about a U.S. Department of Agriculture effort to stabilize guts dune with European beach grasses . The author was strike by the way dunes could move , over time , like endure thing — swallow river , clogging lakes , burying forests . “ These waves can be every bit as annihilative as a tidal wave . . . they ’ve even cause deaths , ” he wrote his broker , begin an clause , “ They stop the Moving Sands , ” that was never print .
Despite his broker ’s indifference , Herbert hollow in : He was fascinate by the project and lay over the history of another flaxen station — include Arabs and Islam ’s Mohammed — into an adventure novel originally shout “ Spice Planet . ”
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