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"The bottom line in the Dune trilogy is: beware of heroes. Much better to rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes."
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![]() The field can contain an atmosphere, but doesn't provide gravity.
It allows for the tiniest of habitable "planets":
Blue water turned hollows into
crystal lakes. Terrace-gardens were
luminous with blooms. Every sharp
cliff was softened with its blanket of
blue-flowering crimson Martian moss.
"The Chardion field is tuned to
serve as an energy-trip,” Kellon commented. “That keeps up the temperature. Also, the light-absorption makes
Veron almost invisible.” Again, warning rang hard in his voice. “Any passing ship would be far within the range
of the guns, long before we could be
discovered.”
Compare to paragravity from Collision Orbit (1941) also by Williamson and to planetoid with earth gravity from The Soul Eaters (1944) by William Conover. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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