Science fiction is often accused of stealing the basic plots of cowboy stories and other pulp fiction genres, then simply transferring them to outer space. What is Dune, according to this perspective, but a story of uprooted settlers finding a new home in the untamed and inhospitable open spaces where few other cowpokes dare to go? The protagonist Micha…
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