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Dune

By age 30 you should have a wife, a concubine, an abomination of a sister, a 61 billion kill count and a coffee service.

What readers like: Dune

Scott Locklin has a post up on The Fremen are Chechens: “Sabres of Paradise” as inspiration for Dune, in which he makes a compelling case that Frank Herbert’s Dune is based on Lesely Blanch’s Sabres of Paradise [Amazon links]. This is an interesting addition to my post last

The Long View 2008-03-20: Missing Greenhouse Signature; Arthur C. Clarke; JFK & Religion; Dune 2.0; Extreme Good Friday

The passing of Arthur C. Clarke in 2008 spurred this comment by John J. Reilly: Here is a mystery: Clarke was usually counted among the Big Three of science fiction in the second half of the 20th century; the other two were Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. All of them