Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being killed in Timor; the children of Uganda awake to the consciousness of the wretchedness of having been born; and the birds of prey-the world powers-are gnawing on the bones of 2,000 million human beings. Where would the established order be on two-thirds of this planet without the machine gun or the rope, torture or exile? It is on this scale that I measure the privilege of being French...
While millions of people on this planet are crying out for something to eat, the U.S. satisfies its selfish hunger for prestige. Worse, it does it by unleashing a vehicle with terrifying military capabilities...
...suicidal leviathan was a relatively rare sperm whale. Such whales have the biggest brains on the planet...
Herbert, a former West Coast newspaperman, set the science-fiction world on its antenna in 1965 with the publication of Dune, an involved and resonant adventure saga of how human civilization was reborn in a desert. Set on the waterless planet of Arrakis, or Dune, the book introduced a hero whose ancestry went back to the legendary Greek House of Atreus. Paul Atreides had something for everyone. He was part Odysseus, part Jesus and part Muhammad. His followers were a desert people forced by circumstances into a mystical and practical awareness of their ecosystem...
...Leto is still in control, his life extended by a geriatric drug whose supply he has cornered. Throughout the centuries, Leto has been slowly and deliberately metamorphosing into the gigantic sandworm that the planet's original inhabitants worshiped as their god. Furthermore, Leto's private drug stock has given him the racial memories of all his ancestors and the ability to see the future. His utterances are gnomic and awesome: "Oh, the landscapes I have seen! And the people! The far wanderings of the Fremen and all the rest of it... You must remember that I have...