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![]() Lighting is important to any decorating scheme; the lighting used in science fiction also sheds light (pun intended) on the technology available to the people in the story. On Dune, there is always the contrast between primitive tribal psychology and technology more advanced than we now possess
You can't really tell from this passage, but other uses make it clear that these globes glow without any apparent external power source (they don't seem to be plugged in anywhere).
Many thousands of years later, this device is still in use, though its forms have changed; see pole-tethered glowglobe. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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