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Granted, the Columbia is a yummy public relations cream puff. But I am not cheering. What good is space wizardry if our home planet becomes unfit for life -animal, vegetable or human...
Most of us do not relish the idea of colonizing outer space. Indeed, we have no moral right to do so-at least not until we clean up our act on this planet...
...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...