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The Oregon Coast Inspired the Novel ‘Dune.’ Does the Sci-Fi Tale Foreshadow Its Fate?
The Oregon ecosystem that resembles fictional “Arrakis” is eroding due to extreme weather.
By Kiley Price
Released on March 1, the “Dune 2” movie has already earned over $200 million at box offices worldwide. The movie series is based on the late novelist Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel, in which colonizers from other worlds fight among themselves and with an Indigenous population for control of an inhospitable desert planet known as “Arrakis.”