One also wonders how they dealt with the problem of their hidden sietch water-hoards getting all algified and gross without losing or unusablizing some water in the process.
Backwashing the pool filter this morning, and having recently watched _Dune_, can't help but wonder what the first Fremen off-world must have thought when they encountered people throwing away gallons of water _just_ to clean some crud off their sand...
(Other than, y'know, crysknife to the face.)
As an SF author, I have heard enough about drawing a hard boundary between SF and fantasy. Don't care about that. I am much more interested in drawing a hard boundary between "intriguing dreams of elsewheres and elsewhens" and "smug parables shitting on them".
Tl;dr mundanobation should be its own genre.
(In the absence of other evidence, I choose to believe that he lived a long and happy life after growing fat on the blood of Harkonnens.)
Science fiction writer. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist. Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!