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"I was perfectly satisfied to write science fiction knowing that it would pay very little, that it would be seen by only a very few people."
- Isaac Asimov
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| No-Globe | ||
| A large spherical living space that is concealed by special Ixian technology, making it impossible to detect by any known probe. |
The ultimate "undisclosed location" - a space concealed perfectly waits thousands of years for discovery.
| For the first two days of their occupation, the globe had received a careful examination... Tweny-one skeletons preserved in transparent plax along a wall near the core! Macabre observers of everyone who passed through there... Patrin had found records that said the dead ones were the artisans who had built the place, all slain by the Harkonnens to preserve the secret. Altogether, the globe was a remarkable achievement, an enclosure cut out of Time, sealed away from everything external. After all of these millenia, its frictionless machinery still created a mimetic projection that even the most modern instruments could not distinguish from the background of dirt and rock. |
| From Heretics of Dune,
by Frank Herbert. Published by Putnam in 1984 Additional resources -
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