{"id":213048,"date":"2024-03-13T18:46:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T18:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/in-frank-herberts-dune-fungi-are-hidden-in-plain-sight\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:42","slug":"in-frank-herberts-dune-fungi-are-hidden-in-plain-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/in-frank-herberts-dune-fungi-are-hidden-in-plain-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"In Frank Herbert\u2019s Dune, fungi are hidden in plain sight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Advancing sandworms in Dune: Part Two<\/p>\n

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Dune: Part Two<\/em><\/a>, Denis Villeneuve\u2019s movie adaptation of Frank Herbert\u2019s 1965 classic sci-fi novel Dune<\/em>, is out in cinemas. For almost six decades, fans of the epic space saga have looked at it from many angles, from colonialism to religious fanaticism, but I was blown away to discover, on reading mycologist Paul Stamets\u2019s book Mycelium Running<\/em>, that \u201cmuch of the premise of Dune<\/em> [\u2026] came from his [Herbert\u2019s] perception of the fungal life cycle\u201d.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with his language. When explaining\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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