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Direct Descent
1980 novel by Frank Herbert From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Direct Descent is a 1980 science fiction novella by American writer Frank Herbert.[1] It was based on his short story "Pack Rat Planet" published in 1954 in Astounding Science Fiction.
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Plot summary
Set in the far future, it consists of two stories about how the peaceful Archivists of the library planet Earth have to deal with warmongers arriving and trying to exploit knowledge for power. It contains a lot of pictures and is aimed at children or adolescents.
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