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"It wasn't until I was past forty that it bacame clear that I was going to be quote, successful, unquote."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Communinet | ||
| A public data network.i |
| Signals… and they filled her with premonition.
Why were lights used to signal across the basin? she asked herself. Why couldn’t they use the communications network? The answer was obvious: the communinet was certain to be tapped now by agents of the Duke Leto. Light signals could only mean that messages were being sent between his enemies—between Harkonnen agents. |
| From Dune,
by Brian Herbert. Published by Putnam in 1965 Additional resources -
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