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there's some sci-fi reviews at http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/sfindex.htm each review points to many other reviews, so it's a good resource. "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin is reviewed at http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/disp.htm this points to a "study guide" at http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/dispossessed.html the review of "Dune" is at http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/dune.htm and points to two interesting pages. Al-Qaeda as the Arabic translation of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/5491-4.cfm Osama bin Laden as Paul Atreides http://www.groundzeromemorial.net/comment.htm Oct 7, 2001 : The Empire Strikes Back How strange it is that a number of U.S. networks have chosen 'America Strikes Back' as the title of the days events. Strange because the phrase, so far as I know, is a play on the title of the second film of the Star Wars Trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back. I don't imagine it is a conscious play on this, but rather that the phrase has entered the cultural lexicon. Apparently it has been forgotten that The Empire is Evil, the great war machine run by Darth Vader. Remember that the hero, Luke Skywalker, came from a desert planet. We have inadvertently cast bin Laden as a hero. [..] It surprised me, though, to find that the caves of Afghanistan were once part of an ancient agriculture system. Like the giant 'sietch' caves of Dune, some of Afghanistan's caves were once used to hold water.
