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Arrakis, Tatooine, and the Science of Desert Planets

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Scene from Dune Part II showing Chani and Paul sitting on a sand dune
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Arrakis, Tatooine, and the Science of Desert Planets

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Tolkien’s Map and the Perplexing River Systems of Middle-earth

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“You want stories?" Thom Merrilin declaimed. "I have stories, and I will give them to you. I will make them come alive before your eyes.”

Robert Jordan, The Eye Of The World

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