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Dune Study Guide

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by Frank Herbert
About 15 pages (4,617 words)
Dune (novel) Summary

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Social Sensitivity

Reviewers in the 1960s generally faulted Dune for being naive about both planetary ecology and anthropology. In recent years critics have come to regard Dune and its sequels as extraordinarily complete portraits of an alien planet and a spacefaring society. In the 1960s, American society was becoming increasingly aware of the environmental problems created by modern technology. Also during the 1960s, there was a growing interest.....

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Dune from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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