Word: emperor
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...tests before it comes into widespread use. Says Mulliken: "We just don't know how strong the bone is going to be." Adds Oral Surgeon Leonard Kaban: "We are trying to go very slowly with this. We don't want it to be a case of the emperor's new clothes, where everybody wants it to work so much that they just believe it does...
...EMPEROR OF DUNE by Frank Herbert; Putnam; 411 pages...
...North Africa. In 1969 Herbert published Dune Messiah, which has since sold more than 2.2 million copies in hard-cover and paperback. Seven years later came Children of Dune, which has also topped the 2 mil lion mark. Now Herbert has turned the trilogy into a tetralogy with God Emperor of Dune, a fourth visit to distant Arrakis that is every bit as fascinating as the other three-and every bit as timely...
...Emperor is set a full 3,500 years after the events of the previous books...
...probably most impressive as a historical novelist. Not only does he do his homework, but he can make old facts look like contemporary gossip. And he takes wicked pleasure in turning accepted notions about the past upside down. Julian (1964) strikes a blow for paganism and the Roman Emperor who tried to halt the spread of Christianity. Both Burr (1973) and 1876 (1976) portray the U.S. founding fathers and their successors in distinctly unheroic postures. Creation opens on a similarly iconoclastic note. Vidal's target this time is the Athens of Pericles, the cradle of Western democracy...