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"it slowly dawned on me that the landscape of science is maybe what interests people a great deal in science fiction."
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![]() This device is used several times in Dune; in the quote given below, the Duke Atreides and his staff are in conference after taking the fief of Dune:
The glossary of terms at the back of the novel states that a solido is a three dimensional image using the 360 degree image imprinted on a shigawire reel, adding that "Ixian solido projectors are commonly considered the best" - essential information for those of you shopping today on Ebay.
Here's a larger image of the projection itself:
![]() (Factory Crawler from 'Dune' by Frank Herbert) Compare to the solidograph from Gather, Darkness! (1943) by Fritz Leiber. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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