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

ANSWER: Frank Herbert [or Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr.]
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