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more about #joshuaglenn more comments → Bill-Lee: Frank Herbert's trip to Oregon where he witnessed the USDA'S attempts to use poverty grass to stop the movement of sand dunes occurred sometime in 195... more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: If "Silent Spring" came out after "Dune" was already finished (which it would have to have been, if Analog had bought it and was printing it, given le... more » Null.Aleph: I've seen nothing from what I've read of Frank Herbert including interviews to suggest he was influenced at all by Carlson. Maybe I'm mistaken, but f... more » guspaz: Carson? Ugh. Carson was a quack whose pseudoscience caused a misguided public outcry that is now responsible for millions of deaths. In many ways, she... more » Jonny_eh: Apparently Rachel Carson's theory for why smoking was harmful was that tobacco was sprayed with pesticides. more » ahmacrom: "GET OUT OF MY ECOLOGICAL MIND!" more » J_Frank_Parnell: Alot of Herbert's works (yes, he wrote books besides Dune) deal with environmental themes. Worth checkin' out. more » gorehound: I ove the Dune series.Especially the first 3 books but I have read them all even the newer ones.The newer ones done after Herbert's death aren't as go... more » ManchuCandidate: Spice = DDT? more » Hamslicer: I think every auction picture should have a penny for scale. Even a penny auction. more » Joshua Glenn: Space Beach! more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: I want to go to there. In its heyday. Space Beach! more » zmook: Would it help your experiment to know that I had to really work at talking myself out of bidding on that? I mean, what would I do with it? But I wa... more » Hamslicer: Some guys put a "prayer box" on ebay. The 3D rendering had scripture written all over it. All kinds of "opinion" claims/statements regarding it's pow... more » zegota: This experiment seems flawed, in that you're giving away the whole thing from the beginning. I'm sure that's required, for legal reasons, but you're g... more » -
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Alternate Histories Of Objects For Sale On eBay
Would you pay more money for items on eBay if they had interesting stories behind them? A group of writers has determined to find out, by selling objects on eBay that come with fictional alternate histories. More »
