Frank Herbert spent his entire family fortune building his time machine, and even had to sell his family ranch in California and the family's stock in General Electric.

Woah, that's heavy.

[–] The_Tired_Horizon@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

We've been making these Dune time machine jokes since Back to the Future.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

And then Edgar Rice Burroughs used that time machine technology to go even further back to 1912 and started the serialization of A Princess of Mars.

[–] DankDingleberry@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

read the first sentence and was almost gonna downvote. well played

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Grandfather paradox.

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