The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. On the dedication page for the 1965 sci-fi epic novel Dune, author Frank Herbert writes that this is for “the people whose labors go beyond ideas into the realm of ‘real materials’—to the dry-land ecologists, wherever they may be, in whatever time they work, this effort at prediction is dedicated in humility and admiration.” Unlike most science fiction of its time, Dune isn’t about so much about technology as it is about ecology.
