The Santaroga Barrier

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>Santaroga seemed to be nothing more than a prosperous farm community. But there was something...different...about Santaroga. Santaroga had no juvenile delinquency, or any crime at all. Outsiders found no house for sale or rent in this valley, and no one ever moved out. No one bought cigarettes in Santaroga. No cheese, wine, beer, or produce from outside the valley could be sold there. The list went on and on and grew stranger and stranger. Maybe Santaroga was the last outpost of American individualism. Maybe they were just a bunch of religious kooks.... Or maybe there was something extraordinary at work in Santaroga. Something far more disturbing than anyone could imagine.<br/><br/><br/>Review<br/><br/><br/>"Herbert does more than carry events forward: he deals with the consequences of events, the implications of decisions."-- "St. Louis Post-Dispatch"<br/><br/><br/>"Herbert is one of the most thought-provoking writers of our time; by focusing on an 'alien' culture, he makes us examine what the true definition of 'human' is."-- "San Rafael (CA) Pacific Sun"<br/><br/><br/>"Herbert may be one of our major prophets."-- "Berkeley (CA) Barb"<br/><br/>Herbert does more than carry events forward: he deals with the consequences of events, the implications of decisions.-- "St. Louis Post-Dispatch"<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Frank Herbert (19201986), winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards and a #1 New York Times bestselling author, was born in Tacoma, Washington, and worked as a reporter and later as an editor for a number of West Coast newspapers before becoming a full-time writer. His first science fiction story was published in 1952, but he achieved fame more than ten years later with the publication of Dune World and The Prophet of Dune in Analog. The stories were amalgamated in the bestselling novel Dune in 1965.