Dune - by Frank Herbert

This is an unprecedented science fiction novel with a rich plot and a grand worldview. After the publication of the 1957 novel "The Dragon in the Sea," Herbert traveled to Florence, Oregon, at the northern tip of the Oregon Dunes. Here, the USDA is trying to stabilize the dunes with poor grass. In a letter to his literary agent, Lutton Brasingham, Herbert claimed that shifting sand dunes could "engulf entire cities, lakes, rivers, highways". [2] Herbert's article on the dunes "They Stop the Moving Sand" was never completed (it was published decades later on the road to the dunes), but its research inspired Herbert's interest in ecology and deserts interest of.