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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.
In 1957, author Frank Herbert traveled to the Oregon Dunes on a reporting assignment. He wrote on the use of grasses to slow the movement of the dunes, prevent them from spreading, from taking over.
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]
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This companion work to the Dune novels includes an alternate novel based on Frank Herbert's original notes for his 1965 novel Dune, letters between Frank Herbert and his editor, the original article by Frank Herbert which inspired the creation of Dune — "They Stopped the Moving Sands" — as well as unused chapters from Dune and its sequel Dune Messiah (1969), and the short stories in the ...
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