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The Oregon Dunes, near Florence, Oregon, served as an inspiration for the Dune saga. After his novel The Dragon in the Sea was published in 1957, Herbert traveled to Florence, Oregon, at the north end of the Oregon Dunes. Here, the United States Department of Agriculture was attempting to use poverty grasses to stabilize the sand dunes.
The Oregon Dunes near Florence, Oregon, served as an inspiration for the Dune saga. Herbert began researching Dune in 1959. [23] He was able to devote himself wholeheartedly to his writing career because his wife returned to work full-time as an advertising writer for department stores, becoming their breadwinner during the 1960s. [24]
The Oregon Dunes are over 100,000 years old and stretch approximately 40 miles (64 km). The youngest dunes, which are the closest to the ocean, began forming about 7,000 years ago. Studies of individual sand grains show that these sands were carried down from the mountains by the Umpqua, Siuslaw, and other smaller rivers. [4]
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Eureka, set in Oregon, but filmed in British Columbia [6] Free Agents, set in Portland, but filmed in Los Angeles; Gravity Falls, set in the Detroit Lake area of Oregon; Grimm, set and filmed in Portland; Hello Larry, set in Portland; Leverage, set in Portland beginning with season 5; filmed in Oregon since season 2
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Sandworms of Dune is a science fiction novel by American writers Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the second of two books they wrote to conclude Frank Herbert's original Dune series, and the final book chronologically of the story. It is based on notes left behind by Frank Herbert [1] [2] [3] for Dune 7, his own planned seventh novel in the ...
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