Whipping Star Summary
Frank Herbert

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Whipping Star Summary

Whipping Star is conceptual writing on a grand scale. In this novel, the principal concept is that stars are part of living beings. Much of the appeal of the novel is developing the implications of the main idea. In this sense, Herbert's Dune (1965) is an extraordinary achievement because it has more than one important concept worked out in convincingly thorough detail. By comparison, Whipping Star is a lean novel...

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