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Just Deserts

Frank Herbert's "Dune" is in part inspired by the Oregon dunes eating Florence, similar to how a cockroach ate Cincinnati.
Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Tombs of Atuan" was likewise inspired:

Now came the great, improbably impetus to the book: a road trip to south-eastern Oregon...I knew my novel would be set in that desert.

Sand Pudding is apparently a real dessert.

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