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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		'Dune' And The City Of Destiny: How Tacoma Inspired One Of The World's Most Acclaimed Sci-Fi Authors
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:08:49
	Publish Date:		2018-08-25 12:03:00
	Description:		This story originally aired on November 18, 2017. If you go to the base of Point Defiance in Tacoma and look east, you'll see a finger of earth jutting into Puget Sound. It formed as toxic slag spilled from a copper smelter during the city's industrial heyday. For years, it was a foreboding sliver of black, glassy material. Today, workers and machines roam the peninsula as they transform it into a grassy park with Puget Sound views. Tacoma Metro Parks Commissioner Erik Hanberg has a space-age term for what's going on there. He calls it " terraforming ." The choice of words is no accident. If Hanberg gets his way, the park's name will honor Frank Herbert, a son of Tacoma who authored one of the most popular and acclaimed science fiction novels of all time, "Dune." Hanberg was in middle school when he first read the epic tale of interplanetary politics, religious prophecy, and a consciousness-expanding drug mined from the deserts of a faraway world. He remembers how it felt to turn to
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