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Frank Herbert's Dune books dealt with life, war and death on a desert planet. The White Plague (Putnam; $14.95) is set on earth in the grim present. Molecular Biologist John Roe O'Neill, an Irish American in Dublin, sees his wife and children annihilated by an I.R.A. bomb. Vengeance becomes his spur. In a home laboratory he invents a new disease and releases the plague in three nations: Ireland, because his family died there; England, because of British oppression; and Libya, because it operates training schools for terrorists. The disease spreads so quickly that life itself...
BOOM! Seagulls dive over a beach and land neatly on paper. For Renaissance Man Donald Everett Axinn squats against a dune scribbling--islands, berries, turtles, plural nouns. He glues the words together with broad images like love, wind, or sea, making poems from them...
...recent weekend in Oregon's Dunes National Recreation Area, carousing, boozing, drug-using dune-buggy jockeys brawled so fiercely that officials had to set up a field hospital to treat the casualties. In Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a ranger was assaulted one night when he inspected a parked car and chanced on a kidnaper and his victim. Everglades National Park in Florida has become a major thoroughfare for illegal drugs from Colombia and elsewhere. Arizona has robberies, assaults, rapes and sex parties in its Salt River area, and the Wasatch Front in Utah...
...Indecent Obsession, McCullough (1 last week) 2. Cujo, King (2) 3. Noble House, Clavell (4) 4. The Hotel New Hampshire, Irving (3) 5. Masquerade, Williams 6. No Time for Tears, Freeman (5) 7. Remembrance, Steel (6) 8. Gorky Park, Smith 9. God Emperor of Dune, Herbert 10. The Cardinal Sins, Greeley...
...Emperor of Dune, Herbert...