The Big Picture Both installments of director Denis Villeneuve'sDune franchise have been box-office hits. It's not surprising that each release caused a spike in sales of the novel Dune by Frank Herbert, on which both films are based. Many people who seek out the original book won't be looking for anything all that different from, say, the experience of revisiting one of the previous cinematic adaptations of the science fiction franchise.
In a story that has since become very familiar to Dune fans, Herbert dates the inspiration for the novel to 1951, when he was studying the sand dunes of Florence, Oregon for a potential magazine article. The dunes were expanding and encroaching on the town, while ecologists and engineers were fighting them back by strategically planting grasses – an early form of the "terraforming" that would soon become a sci-fi staple.
It was never really known how much truth there was to this story, but Immerwahr did some digging and offers compelling evidence of this man's identity. If he's correct, the man, "Henry Martin," is on the historical record as having, in 1927, resisted an illegal arrest, which itself was part of a pattern of oppression visited by the American government on Quileute people during this time.
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