This author modified a Quranic term for revelations called “amthal” for a concept of limit testing. (15[1])Lesley Blanch’s book The Sabres of Paradise inspired this author’s usage of Caucasian customs such as a double-bladed knife called a kindjal. Car repair (15[1])manual company Chilton Books (15[1])published this author, (15[3])who named (15[1])a fictional event after “Darwin Among the Machines” author (15[1])Samuel (-5[1])(*) Butler. This author (10[1])created (10[6])a (10[1])series of creatures (10[2])after watching (10[1])maggots eat away at (10[1])psychedelic mushrooms. (10[2]-5[1])This author was inspired by (10[1])environmental stabilization (-5[1])projects in an Oregon national park (10[2]-5[1])to depict the terraforming (10[1])efforts of Indigenous people called (10[1])Fremen (10[3])(“FREH-men”). Oil (10[2]-5[3])is (10[1])analogized (10[1])to a resource (-5[1])called (10[1])“spice” (10[1])in a 1965 (10[2])novel (10[1])by this (10[1])author (10[1]-5[1])set on the planet of Arrakis. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author (10[1])of Dune. (10[1])■END■ (10[3])