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...point: Stand on Zanzibar may be part of the sci-fi world's response to Dune. It seems like a normal "conjures-up-a-chilling-future" novel. But it is a little bit more...
Then Frank Herbert wrote Dune: the sci-fi world is still recovering from that one. Men reading Dune tend to forget who they are: coming out of it. I felt like Rip Van Winkle after a twenty-year dream. Herbert's universe is rich and beautiful: more important, it is inexplicable. It is to be experienced, not reported...
...nothing is resolved: no governments fall, no aliens invade, no decisions are reached. The universe is insane, and good sci-fi-like Dune and Stand on Zanzibar -is beginning to cope with this. You see . . . you see? It's so very lonely, you're 2,000 lightyears from home...
...Angeles to further his music-writing ambitions. Last winter, Manson moved his clan to the Spahn Ranch in western Los Angeles County, and it was from there that they made their alleged commando forays against their affluent victims. Manson busied himself converting stolen cars into dune buggies, and after the ranch was raided in August, he led his followers to their own hell in the inhospitable depths of Death Valley...
...ORIGINAL two-page full color advertisement for Warner-Lambert's "Pristeen" shows a girl sitting on a dune, her knees at her chest and her air fluttering slightly in the wind. She looks very sad ( contemplative I later learned) and the headline reads, "Unfortunately the trickiest deodorant problem a girl has isn't under her pretty little arms. The real problem, " continues the ad in smaller letters, "is how to keep the most girl part of you-the vaginal area-fresh and free from any worry-making odors...