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What the Military Can Learn From Dune
The story’s hero, Paul Atreides, understood how to find a conflict’s center of gravity better than most military wonks. Carl…
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Spice World: WIRED Traces the Dune Legacy
As the latest take on the novel hits the big screen, WIRED traces the impact of Frank Herbert’s complex, prescient…
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The Secret Sci-Fi Origins of Burning Man
Though almost nobody talks about it, the desert confab owes its existence to Mad Max, Lawrence of Arabia, and—very crucially,…
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How to Make a Dune Stillsuit
But not really, because actual functioning stillsuits are still impossible. Everyone talks about the sandworms and the spice, but the…
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Dune Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict
From Afghanistan to cyberattacks, Frank Herbert’s novel anticipated and shaped warfare as we know it. Just before his deployment to…
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