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“Prescience and Prophecy” © 2008 by Csilla Csori
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The science of Dune: unauthorized exploration into the real science behind Frank Herbert’s fictional universe / edited by Kevin R. Grazier, Ph.D.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-933771-28-3
1. Herbert, Frank. Dune. 2. Science fiction, American—History and criticism. 3. Dune (Imaginary place) I. Grazier, Kevin Robert, 1961-
PS3558.E63Z87 2007
813'.54—dc22
2007036294
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