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To Pardot Kynes, the planet was merely an expression of energy, a machine being driven by its sun. What it needed was reshaping to fit it to man’s needs. His mind went directly to the free-moving human population, the Fremen. What a challenge! What a tool they could be! Fremen: an ecological and geological force of almost unlimited potential.
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Seeing the Fremen as both agents and tools in the dream of transformation creates tension. The language of science as savior is not independent of power relations either.
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Appendix I · The Ecology of Dune
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