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“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
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Set in contemporary.
“While most of the book is written in standard prose, a couple of chapters are written in the format of a screenplay.”
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