![]() ![]() Kynes, views Dune’s ecology within a chaos-theory model, as a dynamical system that might be radically altered through a minimal change in one key variable, “the water cycle,” affecting its interlocking feedback loops ( Dune, 1:274/269, 1:139/137). As chaos theory is the study of orderly patterns in turbulent, erratic, or dynamical systems, and as an ecology is by definition a dynamical system, chaos-theory concepts provide insight into the dynamics of any ecology, and the orderly patterns discernible within an ecology will reveal chaos-theory structures. ![]() Patterns Within Patterns’: Chaos-Theory Concepts and Structures in Frank Herbert’s Dune Novels,” this ecological motif is integrated into many of the other most prominent elements of the Dune Chronicles, what we might call their “overtones,” through mutual connections to chaos-theory concepts and structures. ![]() Frank Herbert wrote that Dune “was to be an ecological novel.with many overtones.” 1 As I have argued in “‘Plots Within Plots. Donald Palumbo The Monomyth as Fractal Pattern in Frank Herbert’s Dune Novelsġ. ![]()
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