The Road to Dune by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780340837450
Published: 2005-09-11T23:00:00+00:00

"House Linkam cannot exist without you, my love," Jesse insisted, "and I cannot live without you. The nobles may be addicted to spice and power, but I am addicted to you."

Unexpected tears sparkled in Dorothy's eyes, and Jesse hurried down the table to her. She looked up at him, then became harder and more sensible. "No, Jesse. I am a mere concubine, without any noble blood.

You and I can never marry. I will not be the ruin of your great House!"

He turned a sharp, implacable look toward the plump Wuda. "I'm certain our Grand Emperor will give us a special dispensation. As he's told us before, he is the embodiment of Imperial law. The Emperor can change it whenever he sees fit to do so."

Inton Wuda gave a bored wave of assent as he sampled the second liqueur. Obviously, he had expected news of more significance. "I think you're a fool, Linkam, but it's the least troublesome request you have made in some time."

Jesse sipped from a small glass of melange distillate, warming his mouth and throat. Setting the drink down, he held her and looked into her myrtle-brown eyes. "Marrying you may not be the best political path for House Linkam, but forget all that, Dor! After what we've just achieved, we can certainly overcome a few mutterings at court."

She looked at him for a long moment. "If My Lord insists ..."

He kissed her, and her mouth tasted like spice.

"From this day forward, you shall be known as Lady Dorothy Linkam," he said. "True nobility is not a birthright—it must be earned"

"THEY STOPPED THE MOVING SANDS"

In 1957, Frank Herbert chartered a small plane and flew to Florence, Oregon, to write a magazine article about a research project being conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA had discovered a successful method of stabilizing sand dunes, planting poverty grasses on the crests of dunes to keep them from encroaching on roads and buildings. Experts were traveling to Florence from all over the world to see the project, since many areas were experiencing problems similar to those occurring in the Sahara Desert, where advancing sands were causing severe damage. Frank Herbert was very excited about the article, which he titled "They Stopped the Moving Sands." He sent a detailed outline to his agent, Lurton Blassingame, along with photographs.

The agent expressed only lukewarm interest and refused to send it

out to publishers until it was reworked. Ultimately, Frank Herbert lost enthusiasm for the magazine article, and it was never published. It formed the beginning, however, of more than five years of intense research and writing that would culminate in Dune.

Here, for the first time, we are pleased to publish Frank Herbert's notes for the magazine article.

from the desk of FRANK HERBERT

July 11, 1957

Dear Lurton,

Enclosed are some pix to explain an article I'd like to have queried around. Briefly, it involves the control of sand dunes which have been known to swallow whole cities, lakes, rivers, highways. The dunes in these pix for a time threatened part of an Oregon coastal town.

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